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Question by luciano1212: I need a project management plan for Wirless GSM roll out project?
I am facing a problem to track 1500 Wiless cell sites ( GSM ) on excel,with forcast, timelines,,,etc it’s hudge task, if you can help me it will great, If you have or know a tools make my life easy , it will great, TX

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Answer by Project Manager
It is a huge task – which would require a huge answer.

Depending on exactly what you’re trying to do, I wouldn’t start in Excel, but in MS Project, which is designed better to handle these kinds of challenges. You can always export to Excel if you need to.

You need to develop a plan, at an appropriate level for 1 site, and then replicate it for each site. You might have several “flavors” of site, so you’d need a template for each flavor.

You’ll need to set up attribute codes, such as State, Crew etc. so that you slice and dice your data in different ways.

With a project of this size the project management budget should, although probably doesn’t, allow for the hiring of a professional to help you with this problem. The cost justification would be that doing the planning right could save you significant dollars in the long run.

Although creating the plan will be the first challenge, the next, and perhaps equal challenge, will be how you collect progress information and stay on-top of the project once it is underway, since I’m assuming that a delay on one site will have the potential to delay other sites as crews move around the country.

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