Facilitated by TJ Badru.

Want to make your Agile reporting smarter, faster, and truly custom? Spreadsheets like Google Sheets and Excel are surprisingly powerful,  but often underutilized.

Join us for “Advanced Google Sheets & Excel for Agile Reporting and Custom Metrics”, a hands-on session to learn how to craft Agile dashboards, automate reporting, and design metrics tailored to your team’s delivery goals.

1. Why Spreadsheets Still Matter for Agile Teams,

Despite slick Agile tools, teams repeatedly use spreadsheets to pull data, customize reports, and build dashboards that align with their workflows. That’s because spreadsheets offer flexibility, formula-based automation, and easy sharing, all critical for Agile environments. Many practitioners still export data to sheets because they need control and nuance in reporting (Medium: Agile Metrics Using Google Sheets).

2. Key Agile Metrics You Can Build in Sheets,

Sheets let you design your own Agile KPIs, think beyond velocity:

• Lead Time and Cycle Time: Measure from Start to Finish for continuous delivery insights.

• Throughput and WIP: Track team flow and bottlenecks.

• Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD): Visualize stage movement and identify inefficiencies.

3. Templates & Automation Techniques,

Don’t reinvent the wheel, there are excellent templates and automation examples out there:

• Excel Templates for Agile Use: Find sprint backlog, burndown charts, and release planning versions in Office-ready formats.
  (Smartsheet: Free Excel Templates)

• Google Sheets Status Reports: Get functionally rich templates that track sprint health, tasks, owners, and progress graphs.

• Building Your Own Jira Dashboard: Pull live Jira data into Sheets for dynamic dashboards.
  (Polymer: Build a Jira Dashboard in Google Sheets)

4. Workshop: Build Your Own Agile Metrics Dashboard,

We’ll walk through:

• Importing sprint data (manually and via connectors)

• Calculating custom metrics with advanced formulas (e.g., AVERAGEIFS, ARRAYFORMULA)

• Constructing visual charts: burndown, CFD, throughput trend

• Setting up real-time dashboards in Sheets using clickable controls and auto-refresh

5. Event Highlights,

• Live Tutorial: We’ll build an Agile reporting dashboard from scratch in both Excel and Google Sheets.

• Custom Template Kit: Download-able starter workbooks for sprint tracking, KPI monitoring, and release summaries.

• Best Practices Roundtable: Learn how to keep your spreadsheets maintainable, shared, and resilient.

• Bonus Microcontent: Get LinkedIn-ready visual snippets for tweeting or posting insights using your own team’s dashboard.

Want to shift from cookie-cutter charts to tailored, actionable Agile metrics?

Register today.

For “Advanced Google Sheets & Excel for Agile Reporting and Custom Metrics”, August 2025, and become your team’s go-to for data-driven delivery insight.