Custom Visual Reports for Project 2013 and 2016

Every time a new version of Microsoft Project was launched, there were a mix of excitement and enthusiasm to discover, explore and understand the new features that were made available with the new software. Personally speaking, I remember the level of satisfaction I had when Microsoft Project 2013 was first released, because it finally had the long-time waited reporting engine with built-in graphical dashboard reports, in which project managers could view, print, export, edit or even create their own custom reports with life data from the schedule. That was something cool!

All the built-in reports that came with (at that time) new Project 2013 were great, and with just a little more effort you could make them even better – so that’s the reason I started creating my own custom reports.

Here I wanted to share a collection of 9 custom reports that I developed, which I use in my day-to-day duties as a project manager (below you will have a brief explanation for each one of them). You will also find a link to download a file that contains all the reports, so you can install them on your machine. Feel free to modify the reports as per your organization’s needs, and feel free to share them with your colleagues and co-workers.

1. Project Summary
	This report displays basic project information, helping project managers to have a quick overview of their project
2. Schedule Summary
	This report can be used by project managers to understand the performance of their project when it comes to the schedule itself. It includes Baselines and Current Dates, alongside with Actual and Remaining durations and variances
3. Milestones
	This report filters and displays all the milestones that are included in the schedule, allowing project managers to understand where there are variances
4. Critical Tasks
	By using this report project managers can quickly identify all the critical tasks in their schedule
5. Schedule Overview
	This report provides detailed information about the schedule, including Task Status, Tasks burn-down and Late Tasks
6. Cost Summary
	This report helps project managers to understand how their project is performing in terms of costs
7. Work Summary
	The objective of this report is to provide a detailed summary about the project’s work
8. Project Execution
	This report will help project managers to analyze all the aspects of his/her projects in details
9. Resource Summary
	With this report project managers can easily understand how their resources are being used in the project

All the reports are configured to work with both Project 2013 and 2016, and they can also be added to the Enterprise Global in Project Server 2013, Project Server 2016 or Project Online.

If you want to download the reports, you can use this link: TechNet Gallery – Custom Reports for Project 2013 and 2016

I hope you find it useful. I would love to hear your feedback!

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