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ItвЂ™s different for every project but after years of not knowing where money was going on projects I now have an easy tool where I can track budget, forecast and actual on the same sheet for opex and capex. Budget TrackerДЄnother of my fantastic Excel documents. Example timeline for a project made with Office Timeline 10. I use Plutio for Kanban-style task tracking too, and Office Timeline for creating PowerPoint slides with high-level timelines on. I use a lot of Microsoft tools to manage projects. IвЂ™ve used Project for a long time and I like what it can do. People always ask what planning tool I use and the simple answer is that I tend to do most of the detailed stuff in MS Project and the high level stuff in Excel (like the milestone tracker I mentioned above). My pre-and post-meeting checklists are in my Meetings Template Kit. I use them for packing suitcases, writing articles, inducting new members of staff and meetings. I use checklists where I can so that I can tick things off. LifeвЂ™s too short to try to remember everything, every time. If you donвЂ™t have a wireless keyboard I strongly recommend getting one, even if it is something else to carry around. The trains are so bumpy that using the touchscreen on the iPad normally means hitting the wrong thing on the screen and having to redo work several times. I can do more project management tasks (erm, basically email and Slack) because I can type faster and more efficiently. I use an Logitech wireless keyboard and it has completely changed how I use my iPad for work. I used to have a black case but I kept putting the iPad down and couldnвЂ™t find it again. I use an iPad Air with a green EasyAcc case. I use it for work when I travel, because itвЂ™s easier than lugging around a laptop and it has a much longer battery life. OK, I donвЂ™t use this so much for managing actual tasks, more for staying in touch with whatвЂ™s going on. We were watching Mr Skinnylegs just the other day! 6. Delete, delete, delete.ДЄuto-generated Peppa Pig Mindmap. HeвЂ™d even kept marketing mails from companies we didnвЂ™t work with and those annoying cold emails from recruitment firms youвЂ™ve never heard of. I had to look at the email account of someone who had left recently and he had thousands and thousands of emails just saying вЂthanksвЂ™ or other things like that.

Anything done or that isnвЂ™t a task gets filed or deleted. I donвЂ™t use my inbox in the same way as most people: my inbox is a To Do list, either of things I have to do or things I am waiting on others to do. I know many people have moved to Gmail and whatever but I still use Outlook. I also create a version on a slide so we have a visual point of reference for progress during project steering group meetings. The milestone tracker pulls out the big things that they care about and itвЂ™s really a communication tool. Why? Well, most of my stakeholders donвЂ™t want to review a 600-line project plan every time they ask about project status. Project milestone trackerДЄnother Excel document I use, this one holds an extract of key milestones from the project schedule.

IвЂ™ve ditched Assumptions for Actions and included Decisions. RAID traditionally stands for Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies, but for me itвЂ™s a multi-tabbed Excel workbook that covers the project areas that need updating the most. I can filter by the person responsible and itвЂ™s so easy to chase people up when you talk to them because you know exactly what you are waiting on them for. The action log meant that I could have all actions from all meetings (and phone calls, and corridor conversations) noted in one place. ItвЂ™s a simple table that I created in Excel because I was finding it hard to track the actions from each of the meetings I chaired or took minutes for.

This is the number one tool I use and I really couldnвЂ™t manage without it.

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Get a copy of my action log inside the resource library (click the picture or scroll down to the registration box)