Top 10 Project Management Dashboard Traits
Every business manager from Hospitality to Healthcare, Marketing to Mobile and Sales to Customer Support is looking for a way to see what they face for the day. A dashboard, which integrates information from multiple components into a unified display, is a great tool to help focus and prioritize what needs to be addressed for the day, week, month or longer. The format and functionality of your dashboard should inspire you, not make you run the other way. Here’s a list of what I feel are some of the top 10 project management dashboard traits. What else do you look for? What industry are you in and what works for you? Let us know.
1. Project name and a short description
2. Color coded
3. Date reminders
4. Category field
5. Status field
6. Priority field
7. Ability to sort and filter
8. Printable or save to PDF
9. Easy to navigate
10. A look and feel you’ll stick with and refer to day in and day out.