Spreadsheet Models for Managers


Getting Access to Spreadsheet Models for Managers


If Spreadsheet Models for Managersyou use Excel to model businesses, business processes, or business transactions, this course will change your life. You’ll learn how to create tools for yourself that will amaze even you. Unrestricted use of this material is available in two ways.

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Spreadsheet Models for Managers

Organization process definition 7/30
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  • Develop and maintain a standard modeling process for the organization
  • Develop and maintain a set of modeling process assets
    • Model life cycles
    • Standards and definitions
    • Utilities and tools
    • Templates
    • Process tailoring assets
  • To capture process learning
    • Reuse what you can
    • Design things so they can be reused
    • Use macros instead of complex manual procedures
    • Use project retrospectives to capture lessons learned

Pattern 3: Steering

The organization has a standard process for building models, and it tailors that process as necessary for each project. This enables organizational learning by making sure that process experience is propagated from one project to the next.

When there is no standard process, lessons learned in one project have to be relearned in the next.

Last Modified: Wednesday, 27-Apr-2016 04:15:26 EDT

Inspect Your Project Early

Many believe that the main benefit of spreadsheet inspections is that they locate issues so they can be fixed. Certainly they do accomplish that. But spreadsheet inspections, when performed early enough and often enough, can actually prevent problems. And preventing problems is certainly more valuable than locating them.

We hope that you’ll apply what you learn about spreadsheet inspections when you work on your projects. If you’re working in a team, review your project schedule and decide when would be advantageous times to insert an inspection or two. If you’re working alone, ask someone else who’s working alone if they would be willing to inspect your project in exchange for your inspecting theirs.

Since we don’t grade on a curve, helping someone else doesn’t hurt you. Inspection exchanges raise the quality of both projects — and both grades. Whatever you do, don’t wait until the end to do your inspections.