http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/arrivals Questions tagged with 'arrivals' at Ask MetaFilter. Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:39:02 -0800 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:39:02 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/70764/How%2Ddo%2DI%2Dtrack%2Dand%2Ddisplay%2Dteam%2Dprojects%2Dlike%2Dairports%2Dtrack%2Dflights You know the arrivals/departures screens that hang out in airports? I want one of those for my team, to help track the status of projects. What software do I need? I'm thinking it would be cool to have a tangible way to keep all team members informed about the status of our projects. My fictitious set-up is this: A monitor in a central location displays ten or so projects. On the screen, we have the following information for each project:<br> Project # | Project name | Date started | Date due | Status<br> <br> It will display similarly to the airport monitors: different colours for different statuses, urgent projects on top.<br> <br> My imagination suggests that with the right software running on a spare computer, hooked up to spare monitor, this should be easy. My question is, what software do I need? Is there any free airport tracking software that can be customized? Is there specific project tracking software that would do this?<br> <br> We already have all of the data on each project in an Excel file. It includes extra fields that wouldn't be necessary for the display: person in charge, initiating department, project notes, project category, etc. If the software could read from this Excel file, beautiful; if not, manual data entry will work.<br> <br> Does anybody have any useful contributions? I'm all ears. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.70764 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:39:02 -0800 airport arrivals departures monitors projecttracking workplace Milkman Dan