Download Developer Roadmap for Presentation in Excel
Creating a developer roadmap with quarterly breakdowns in Excel is an excellent way to structure and track the progress of a project throughout the year. This approach makes it easy to decompose complex tasks into simple subtasks directly in Excel. Now you can always meet deadlines and effectively plan and optimize the development process, making it more transparent and organized.
Planning and Tracking Developer Quarterly Goals in Excel
By using our roadmap template as a sample for working with Excel, you'll learn new data visualization possibilities. This roadmap is perfect for both individual developers and teams seeking clear and understandable task and deadline distribution.
You’ll learn how to add interactive elements like drop-down lists and conditional formatting to make your roadmap flexible and easily updatable. In this video, you’ll find out how to build such a roadmap in Excel to clearly define goals, stages, and deadlines for each quarter. The structure of the tutorial is listed below:
- Create a mask from a complex shape with a hole in PowerPoint - using the Union and Combine tools.
- Create a complex vector shape with a 3D effect in PowerPoint to decorate the Roadmap.
- Improve the mask shape in PowerPoint editor using the Fragment tool.
- Create formulas for the interactive features of the Roadmap chart.
- Create a pivot table to add a control panel with data slicers.
- Begin creating a series of charts under a mask to expose the interactivity of the data visualization.
- First check of the Roadmap presentation in Excel.
- Formula for pulling data and auto-filling cells sequentially every two empty cells.
- Create a dynamic label table and event descriptions for each month on the Roadmap.
- Auxiliary column with a formula for sequential auto-filling with references to logical values for conditional formatting formulas.
- Design the control panel layout - buttons with pivot table slicers.
- Add data labels and informative icons from the Excel library collection.
- Start creating the project progress scale in Roadmap style.
- Add additional holes to the mask for enhanced progress scale visualization.
- Use shape overlay techniques with special characters and formulas.
- Pre-check the interactive work of the Roadmap in Excel and fix minor issues.
- Enjoy the finished result of the beautiful Roadmap chart presentation created in Excel.
This video tutorial will teach you how to create an effective developer roadmap where each quarter is broken down into key stages and small steps. All great achievements were woven from small steps. In fact, this is a tool for mastering the art of small steps.
Download and use the Developer Roadmap with quarterly breakdowns in Excel to organize your plans and achieve your goals.
