This tag is used for all questions regarding software that is used by project managers to make their job easier. However, asking for tool recommendations is off-topic. You should already know what tool you plan to use before writing your question.
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Tool for yearly for overview - with filtering by task and person [closed]
I have ~10 projects containing ~10 categories of tasks.
I would like a tool that can give me a yearly overview of this - either based on the projects or based on the type of task.
For example: "view ...
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Agile/Scrum Software Comparison [closed]
I've been looking for comparisons between various pieces of software for tracking a team of about twenty developers (including stakeholders, managers, and area leads).
I'm currently looking at either ...
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Best Option Over MS Project [closed]
Can someone provide a good alternative to MS Project 2013.
How to sequence tasks given time estimates?
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Project, Time, and Task Management software 1 person [closed]
I have spend countless hours trying demos of the 100's of types of project and task management software out there, and none seem to fit the bill of exactly what I am looking to accomplish.
I decided ...
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Looking for recommendations for an Online PM+CRM hybrid system [closed]
Preferably self hosted. What I am looking here is a robust project management that has a CRM component to it. Ideally I want to streamline my workflow so I can setup tasks for my crew and then ...
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Should there be separate PMs for projects which involve development of new hardware and new software?
My company is developing a new product which consists of several embedded systems. The hardware for these devices is being developed by electrical and mechanical engineers and the software is being ...
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Why does Pivotal Tracker discourage estimating points for bugs and chores?
Pivotal Tracker "strongly discourages" estimating velocity points for bugs and chores – you have to change a setting and accept a warning to be able to do it.
They explain why here, but I just don't ...
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Learn flow of a project to maintain [closed]
I joined as a Fresher(trainee) in Software Company for Windows Store development. I don't know much about C#. My company is newly started Windows Store development. they don't have Dot net development ...
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PM crash course
I have an engineering background and have accepted an offer from a tech company for which I will be leading a brand new web project (mix of PM + tech lead). There is no prior work done except overall ...
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What is better: a physical Scrum board or an online board?
I used to practice Scrum with a physical board. We often faced problems when working with distributed teams or just when going into a meeting room. So I decided to implement a SaaS service to provide ...
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Where are Primavera's old baseline dates stored after rescheduling the project?
Any idea Where are Primevera's old baseline dates are stored after rescheduling the project?
We can see the old dates in the Client but I want to query the database to get all the dates which were ...
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How can I update a MS Project plan to show schedule slippage?
Once I've set up my baseline, I like to use the Tracking view to see schedule slippage (ie: is a project going to be "late"?). The problem occurs when I'm updating the % Complete, but a task that was ...
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What is the correct process for assessing project management tools/solutions?
We do cross-platform development with .NET, Java, and iOS. I have been tasked with selecting an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution suitable for managing multiple small distributed teams.
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How long does it take to upgrade from Project Server 2007 to Project Server 2010? [closed]
If I had to upgrade from an existing Project Server 2007 to 2010 version, how many days can it take? Assuming the following, is a 1 or 2 day estimate reasonable?
Current Project Server 2007 consists ...
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How can we update nested projects in master project
When we open 1 project from MS Project Server , then we can update it easy and fetch changes and publish again to MSPS.
But when we have many project and programs that embedded them in 1 Master ...
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MS Project: Week, Resource, Project crosstab view
I have MS Project 2010 server.
I need to add view or report (whatever fits best), and it may be implemented on client or server (whatever fits best).
I need a crosstab report where Resources will be ...
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Is there a clear benefit to separating “issues” from “tasks” when working in larger teams?
Is there a clear benefit to separating issue from task when working in larger teams?
When working with sizable teams of developers in addition to a number of external clients, QA, and any other ...
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Which tool you would recommend for the chain from ticketing to software development? [closed]
I am looking for a tool where customers can commit any software product related tickets such as "How do I start the application?" or "There is a bug XY".
From the latter the support members should be ...
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How Microsoft Project Server can support Online Project Management and Planning with different user credentials
I am representing a construction developer firm and I am looking for a tool to easily manage my contractors' progress and their payment. Currently I am using Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel to ...
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Is there any alternative to MS-Project server to build a collaborative deployment plan?
Objective Questions:
How do you guys coordinate cross-team deployment plans? Are you still using the old school Excel for these plans?
How do you rearrange tasks in a way the dependencies between ...
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Is it possible to create a MS-Project without specifying the start date?
I have a process that is defined by the number of business days required to complete.
I'd like to put this into MS Project, but there is no specific start date, as this is a repetitive process. How ...
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Portfolio Reports from Microsoft Project files
How can I take schedule information from multiple (40+) Microsoft Project files and create portfolio dashboards and reports. Specifically, I'd like to see Gantt charts for all projects in a stack.
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PM Software for managing communications history
I work for a small (3 person) consulting/Investment Banking group. For the last 2 years I've been looking for some kind of software to help us manage our "projects" but our projects look nothing like ...
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Should I explain the root cause of a bug when a client asks for it?
Our client asked for the root cause of a bug after we delivered our fix. Should I explain it to her? For example, should I say that the bug arose from a wrong condition check or from bad configuration ...
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Microsoft Project - View Resource Cost for a Specific Timeframe
Using Microsoft Project 2010, how do I view how much a resource costs the project between a specific time period?
For example, I want to view how much the "HR" resource cost the project between ...
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Can we use a electronic Kanban board to track actual time spent?
My title sums up my question pretty well. We're investigating whether we can use a Kanban-based system to manage and track some internal projects and one of our requirements is to track time spent on ...
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How to calculate breakdown (in hours) of each resource used (open project)?
Using Open Project, how can one calculate time spent on a project by resource?
Given 5 people, I'd like to know how much time each person is spending on the project.
Is it done manually, or can we ...
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How to calculate staff-hours using Open Project?
Using Open Project, how can one calculate staff-hours?
Using Project -> Project Information -> Statistics, is work it? ("Work" is 1,219 hours in my example below)
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What should be in an Atlassian toolkit for website PM?
I'm requisitioing some tools for a large scale web development project.
Intending to start with the following:
JIRA for issues tracking, wiki, git or svn hosting
Greenhopper plugin for agile PM
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Project component - what exactly is this?
In order to better track issues and plan development of an ever-expanding web application, I am setting up an instance of Trac. As developer, I will use this system primarily, along with the ...
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Can clients report bugs and issues into Jira without being setup as a user?
I'm looking at implementing Jira (and add-ons) for our team to manage projects and bug-tracking. Obviously I will set the team up as Users but do clients need to be setup as Users to report bugs and ...
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Why does MS project multiply the duration of tasks?
I've created a recurring task in MS project and I'd like to assign resources (staff) to that resource but when I add the resource(s) to the task the Work hours multiply to extremes and I don't ...
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How can I highlight the “today line” in an MS Project Gantt chart?
I have an eye problem, so I want to make the "today line" in my gantt chart to be larger and bolder. Is there any way to do so?
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Is it possible to create a recurring task in OpenProj?
Is it possible to create a recurring task in OpenProj? If so, how do you edit a task to make it a recurring task?
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MS Project: Leveling subtask resources by moving summary task
I'm working on a microsoft project pro problem and need help.
I have two summary tasks A and B starting on the same day. Each Summary task has sub tasks 1,2 with resources allocated to them and ...
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Project Plan software - auto triggers tasks to team
I manage a team of 20 people. I would like to create a project plan with tasks, start date/time, end date/time, link predecessor and successor tasks and also assign my team member names. Here's what I ...
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Microsoft Project - display “plan schedule” vs “actual schedule”
I work on a project with many changes. To get data about how these changes affect my project, I want to show my boss about my plan gantt & actual gantt on the same diagram. Could I do this with ...
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How do I select project management software for our current workflow?
We are a small engineering firm that has just expanded from one to three workers. Earlier, the managing of projects was done by e-mail, where the user sorted each project by folders in Outlook.
Since ...
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What's a good way to do requirements management in Jira? [closed]
My team gets a pretty big corpus of requirement documents before each product... and by "pretty big" I mean roughly a hundred documents with 20-200 requirements a piece.
We're moving to Jira for ...
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Can bug trackers be used for tracking tasks other than programming?
I work as an electrical engineer, and sometimes when work gets busy (read: most of the time) there are so many various tasks and things to remember to take care of later that it can get difficult to ...
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How can I effectively track story points with Trello?
I'm exploring Trello as a Kanban tool, and am hung up on how to track story points with it. This isn't something that Trello natively supports, so I've been re-purposing labels to carry this ...
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How do I get MS Project to give “Actual Finish” using a new baseline?
I have a schedule baselined in MS Project 2007. We have identified, documented and obtained approval for a change to this schedule. I plan to save the new baseline as "Baseline 1" and keep the ...
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What is a good dead simple project management tool? [closed]
I'm looking for a no frills, cheap/free online project management tool. Recommendations?
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Multiple resources for one task in MS Project
I have a single task (of type Fixed Work) with a total Work estimated to 160 hours. When I assign two full-time resources (let's call them Alice and Bob) to it, Duration of the task is 80 hours, as ...
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Software to help estimate effort and record effort for timeline purposes (one man team)
I am trying to find some software that allows the following workflow:
Create a wbs with effort.
Plot wbs items onto a Gantt chart to see when items should/could be
completed by and build a schedule.
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How can I organize an on demand Support Team for a customer-facing project?
I want to manage a team which developers themselves now support the software produced. Developers are the only people who know how to fix the problems.
The problem is that when something goes wrong ...
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ProjectFork is not user-friendly, is there a friendlier system that we can host ourselves? [closed]
We use ProjectFork right now and it seems to be working fine, but we need something that's:
more user friendly
we host ourselves
Our standard requirements for functionality are:
Trouble Tickets ...
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Programs for making gantt charts [closed]
Other than Microsoft Project what are some of the other programs out there that are great for making gantt charts, the best I could find is GanttProject.
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Looking for a tool that has ticket management, user/client profiling and project task assignments [closed]
I'm looking to improve my digital agency's workflow (about 10 people - web design, graphic, photography, etc), and hopefully it'll be something like this:
Mails sent to contact@myagency.com are ...
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What is good PM software for an iterative system development approach?
We aren't necessarily using Agile, but we aren't using the Waterfall approach either; it's more of a hybrid of both.
I was told that Microsoft Project is great for the Waterfall method, but it's not ...
