Excel

(Okay, this picture has nothing to do with today’s topic – it’s a copout picture. I’m still trying to set up this website and I am encountering a few problems due to learning to use this tool. And maybe I am being a little too ambitious on what I want to accomplish. Besides, sourcing pictures for…

 [divider]I once had 150+ projects…[/divider] When I joined this team, they had a lot of project work. At the time, they were mostly in the $10K range, with very few in the $1 million range. All project reporting and analysis were done by spreadsheets. So if you had 150 projects, you had 150 spreadsheets. One…

Don’t Present a Large Block of Numbers   When I first started working at a particular company ages ago, I encountered a situation where I had to step in and make a presentation to management. The girl who normally presented the review had been unexpectedly called out. Her presentation was a spreadsheet with lots of…