Project Status Report Dashboard
A multi-sheet Excel dashboard for tracking project health across schedule, budget, scope, risks, and issues. Features RAG status indicators, milestone tracker, and executive summary view.
What’s inside
- RAG status across schedule, budget, and scope
- Milestone tracker and risk heat map
- Blank Template + Filled Example
About this download
The Project Status Report Dashboard is a multi-sheet Excel tool for tracking and communicating project health across schedule, budget, scope, risks, issues and stakeholder sentiment. Good status reporting is one of the most underrated levers in project management — a clear weekly or fortnightly report prevents surprises, keeps sponsors engaged, and creates a written trail of decisions and escalations that protects both the project and the project manager.
The workbook includes a one-page executive dashboard (the most common request from sponsors), a detailed status log, a milestone tracker with baseline vs. actual dates, a budget sheet showing planned, committed, forecast and actual spend, a risk register with probability/impact scoring, an issue log, a decisions log, a change request list and a stakeholder engagement tab. Every sheet is cross-linked so updating the raw data flows automatically into the executive view, and RAG (Red / Amber / Green) indicators use conditional formatting so the overall health of each dimension is visible at a glance.
Project managers, programme leads, PMO analysts, steering committee chairs and account managers all use this template. It works for software implementations, construction projects, marketing campaigns, consulting engagements, research programmes and business transformation efforts. The filled example inside the download models a realistic mid-project status report including a trending budget overrun, a schedule slip with recovery plan, and an open dependency on a third-party vendor — so readers see how difficult news should be communicated (honestly and with a plan) rather than buried.
A recommended discipline: publish on the same day every week, keep the narrative under 300 words, use visuals rather than bullet lists where possible, always include a "what changed since last week" section, and never leave a risk or issue open for more than two reports without an explicit decision or action.
Once your status report rhythm is in place, Vizually gives you a live version of the same view — the executive dashboard updates automatically as owners change card status on the visual project board, so the Friday report becomes a review of what the system already knows rather than a weekly scramble to collect data from every workstream.