Project action templates

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A template or three for project management meetings: go through a table of tasks updating status and progress comments[1].

The three templates form a table:

  1. Template:Actions Table Header - headings of each column
  2. Template:ActionRow - each row representing a task or activity
  3. Template:Actions Table Footer - table footer, optionally with totals and summary comments.

Themes may be applied to any row using Template:Task status theme - see example below. The themes have names such as 'done', 'ahead', 'on-track', 'behind', 'urgent', 'black', 'red', etc.. The theme of a row may be used to indicate the state of the task. The header and footer rows may also be themed to indicate the state of the project (e.g. in terms of progress in the header and financials in the footer), etc.

Example

Task Details Plan Manage
id Name Description Deliverable Start End Hrs Cost Responsible Status Comment
005 Survey design Design surveys for government and academia Surveys and report. 2012-06-01 2012-12-31 450 22,500.00 Q. Dube done Confirm design accepted.
010 Survey testing Test surveys on sample respondents. Survey test report. Updated surveys. 2012-07-01 2012-07-31 40 2,000.00 S. Jacobs Ahead: 50% complete Academia done. Government on-track.
015 Distribute surveys Send out surveys/links. Surveys sent out. 2012-07-15 2012-08-15 20 1,000.00 D. Mwale on track Academia questionnaires sent. Government on hold.
020 Survey analysis code Code the statistical analysis program. Working code 2012-06-01 2012-07-01 80 40,000.00 A. Geek behind Anocovar module has bugs.
030 MoU Government Cooperation agreement with Ministry of Science MoU 2012-05-01 2012-06-15 16 800.00 T. Bosa urgent Some departments are asking.
040 Pre-survey brochure printing Print brochure 1,000 copies of brochure 2012-05-15 2012-05-31 4 10,200.00 J. Bloggs red Ink and paper shortage. Had to import.
050 Approve academic surveys Approve surveys Approval letter 2012-05-15 2012-05-31 32 16,000.00 L. Laoshi blue Principal happy.
060 Literature review Review previous research. Review Paper (draft) 2012-03-01 2012-04-30 120 60,000.00 R. Fundisa green Supervisor reviewed. Paper ready.
070 Project progress report Write quarterly report on progress. Quarterly report on-going quarterly 24 1,200.00 Project Manager black Blog process effective.
Totals:   Tasks ok in general 153,700 No show stoppers

  1. For comprehensive project management solutions see Comparison of project-management software.