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SheetSprint
Run a SaaS sprint without Jira, in one spreadsheet
13 followers
Run a SaaS sprint without Jira, in one spreadsheet
13 followers
A project management system built entirely in Google Sheets/Excel. Built this for my own 2-person team because every PM tool felt like overkill for our size. Turns out a well-built spreadsheet can do 80% of what Jira/Linear do for teams under ~10 people: critical path calculation, overallocation warnings, live dashboards without the subscription or the learning curve. Would love feedback from other small teams on what's missing.
Honestly love that this is just a spreadsheet with real PM thinking behind it. The overallocation warnings alone are worth it, we have a six person team and were paying for Linear mostly out of habit. Curious how the critical path calculation holds up once dependencies get messy.
@kerimova89863 Thanks Metehan! The overallocation flags are exactly why I built this, seeing someone hit 126% capacity before the week even starts is a game changer. On critical path: it runs a proper forward/backward CPM pass (early/late start and finish, float, critical flag when float is zero), with one predecessor per task. That covers long, branching chains cleanly. The one convention is that a task's dependency needs to sit above it in the list, which is how most people naturally enter tasks anyway. And as of today's update, a messy dependency- unknown ID or out-of-order flags bright red instead of silently skewing the math. It won't replace a dedicated scheduling engine for a 500-task program, but it reliably flags the tasks that actually decide your ship date. Would really love to hear how it does on your next project.
would love to try this with my 4-person team. one thing that always kills us in sheets is dependency tracking breaking when someone reorders rows. maybe add a way to reference tasks by a stable ID instead of row number so the critical path doesn't silently break when someone sorts the sheet
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Great news Öznur! it already works that way, and I just shipped an update that makes it even safer: Depends-On is now a validated Task-ID dropdown, and out-of-order or unknown dependencies flag bright red instead of failing silently. Dependencies reference the Task ID (T-001, T-014, etc), not row position, so links do not break when things move. One convention to keep the critical path highlight accurate: keep a task's predecessor listed above it in the sheet, which sorting by start date preserves naturally. Everything else, dates, hours, workload, dashboards, is fully order independent. It is called out in the built in Read Me so your team will not get caught off guard. Would love to hear how it goes with your 4 person team.
Built a quick test board and the critical path calc actually worked without me having to read a 20 page setup guide. The overallocation warning is the kind of thing that would've saved me last sprint honestly, going to share this with my co-founder.
@devransulb15560 Thanks Devran! That was the whole design goal: open it, type your tasks, and the CPM math just runs. No setup guide needed because there is nothing to set up. Love that you stress tested it with a quick board before trusting it, that's exactly what I'd do too...And yes, the overallocation warning exists because "we found out mid sprint that one person was doing three people's work" is a story every team has. It flags the overload before the week starts, when you can still fix it cheaply.... Really appreciate you sharing it with your co-founder, and if either of you hits anything confusing, tell me and I'll ship a fix. Feedback from this thread already turned into one update today.
The critical path calculation in a sheet is genuinely clever, didn't think that was possible without something like MS Project. Wish I'd seen this a few projects ago.
@n_yalc14858 Thank you Turgay, that means a lot. Getting a real forward/backward CPM pass, early and late starts, float, the works, running on pure formulas took a fair bit of trial and error. No macros, no add ons, so it works the same in Excel and Google Sheets. Glad it is landing well, never too late for the next project. Appreciate the kind words.