Project Pipeline Tracker 2023 – Free Excel Template

This Excel template allows tracking projects and calculating effectiveness in completing them. This is applicable for scenarios where all the projects go through the same set of pre-defined stages in sequence.

In a simple example, each building project may have three stages: Plan – Design – Build. Once planning is completed, designing begins and after designing is completed, build begins. We will be tracking the completion of each stage of each project.

It is very simple to use. It can provide visibility to how long it takes for our projects to complete. It can also help identify where the bottlenecks are in our project cycle. We can also view the trends in terms of time each stages takes.

Project Pipeline - Active Pipeline Summary View
Project Pipeline – Active Pipeline Summary View

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REQUIREMENTS: Microsoft Excel for Windows (2010 or above); Microsoft Excel for Mac (2011 or above);

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How to track project pipeline in Excel?

The template has only 3 visible sheets. In the Data sheet, we enter our input data and the Active Pipeline sheet and Report sheet have output that is automatically calculated. The Data sheet also has a summary of metrics.

Enter stages

By default the template has 6 stages (including the final closing stage).

Project Pipeline Tracker Excel Template - Enter list of stages
Project Pipeline Tracker Excel Template – Enter list of stages

We can rename those stages to meet our business needs. Also, we can remove stages if we don’t need 6. To remove 6th stage, just click on the 6th stage name and press Delete key.

Enter Projects

Enter each project in a separate row in the Projects table.

List of Projects and their information
List of Projects and their information

Enter Project ID and Name. Then, enter Start Date of project. The next 6 columns are dates of completing each stage of project.

These Stage DT fields should not be renamed.

Additional fields to track for projects
Additional fields to track for projects

The two columns (Type, Owner) are optional and can be used to store other information as you need. These can be renamed.

The last four columns in the table are calculated and should not be edited.

Project Pipeline Tracker - Calculated Fields
Project Pipeline Tracker – Calculated Fields
  • CURRENT STAGE Based on the dates entered for each project, the current stage will be displayed. If the project has completed the final stage, then it will display COMPLETED.
  • COMPLETION DATE If the project has completed the final stage, then that date will be displayed.
  • DURATION (DAYS) If the project is completed, the duration from Start Date to Completion Date. If the project is not completed, this is the duration from Start Date to Today.
  • VALIDATION The template checks for a couple of errors. If the dates entered for each stage are not sequential or if there is a date missing in between stages, ERROR will be displayed. Error projects are not included in metric calculations.

Output

Completed Projects – Summary

We can see an instant summary of the completed projects as we enter data.  Number of completed projects and how long on average a project takes.

Completed Projects - Summary View
Completed Projects – Summary View

We also see how long each stage takes to complete.

Active Pipeline – Summary

The number of projects that are currently being worked on and how many projects are currently in each stage are shown.

Project Pipeline - Active Pipeline
Project Pipeline – Active Pipeline

Active Pipeline – Details

We can also see the detailed Active pipeline in the Active Pipeline sheet.

Here we can see the (up to 5) projects in each stage as well.

Active Pipeline Report
Active Pipeline Report

The ID, Type and Owner fields are displayed. Even if you rename the fields and use them to store other type of information, they will be displayed in this Active Pipeline sheet.  Thus, it can be modified to your business needs easily.

Report

The Report sheet presents the metrics (Projects Completed, Average Project Duration and Average Duration for each stage) for the past 12 months.

Pipeline Tracker - Monthly Report - Table
Pipeline Tracker – Monthly Report – Table

The information is also presented visually so that we can see how the duration vary over month for each stage.

Pipeline Tracker - Monthly Report - Chart
Pipeline Tracker – Monthly Report – Chart

Editing the template

  • The Active Pipeline and Report sheets are locked with password (indzara) to prevent accidental editing of formulas. You can unprotect them and make edits if needed. Unprotecting sheets
  • Data sheet is not locked. You can edit the shapes and charts as needed as well.

This is the first version of this template. There are many different directions that we can take this template further. As always, I look forward to feedback and suggestions to make this more useful to a lot of people. I will do my best to implement additional features and enhance the template.

For more project management templates, please visit Project Management Excel Templates

58 Comments

    • Thanks for using our template.

      The maximum number of stages that this template can handle is six.

      Best wishes

      Reply
  • Love the template! Are there any thoughts to enhance the Active Pipeline page to allow more than 5 projects / stage? Would be great to have a report by stage, but need it to include all the projects and not just the first 5. Thanks!!!

    Reply
    • Thanks for your positive feedback.

      We will try to incorporate your suggestions in future releases.

      Best wishes

      Reply
    • Hi, this template is really good. I would also like to have more than 5 projects in active pipeline tab?

      Thanks!!

      Reply
      • Thanks for using our template.

        The number of projects in the active pipeline is 5 for this template. We will try to increase the capacity in future releases.

        Best wishes

        Reply
      • I concur with the past posts that request more than just 5 projects shown in the active pipeline. Can you provide guidance to extend this capability?

        Reply
        • Thank you for showing interest in our template.

          We take customization project for additional fee, requesting to share your requirement on number of stages required to provide an estimation for the same.

          Best wishes.

          Reply
    • I figured out how to report out on all the projects, not just 5. You need to access the hidden sheet and add more rows to the chart sharting at E5. Despite the warning at the top, it appears to work.

      Reply
  • Why in monthly report sheet in research column formula with +1 while other column without it.

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    • Thanks.
      Since Excel when calculating the difference of dates (Jan 10, 2019 – Jan 1, 2019) will give 9 days instead of 10 days, we add +1 to the first stage. By this way all the days are included in the time taken.
      Please let us know if any questions.
      Thanks & Best wishes.

      Reply
  • Hello this spreadsheet is great and is exactly what I am looking for… however I cant seem to update the active pipeline and the 6 stags properly? I have 15 projects added and its only showing 8 active even though I have already entered dates for all of them

    I cant seem to locate the hidden H sheet?

    Thanks in advance fo your help

    JJ

    Reply

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