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How to have the time a task would take and duration for a task in MS Project 2010?
Within my projects I would like to have two different notions of time for a task:
How many hours of actual work the task is expected to take
A time frame for the task that the above hours should be ...
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How to handle CEO “priority” requests that affect existing client deadlines?
Our team(s) have agreed upon timelines both by the team themselves and the clients, including a bit of extra padding in case of any mistakes.
However, the CEO of the company consistently sends ...
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40 work hours a week is said to be the limit for productiveness, does it include open-source?
I keep seeing articles about the uselessness of working more than 40 hours a week, this one for example but I remember I read the same on Forbes and others. Does this estimate include the time spent ...
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ROWE - a buzzword or working strategy?
Recently I've heard about ROWE (Results-Only Work Environment), but I am unable to find any descriptive material about it's rules and principles of such approach.
Do you know (and could share) any ...
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How to frame 'Cancellation Clause' in the contract?
I work for a consultancy firm and it happened (rarely) that the project got cancelled after 1 week of the day it should be starting. No work has been done, but the allocation of the developers were ...
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Time Tracking in basecamp no longer supported. What are some alternatives?
I work for a small web development company and for a few years now we have managed our time tracking through basecamp.
With the recent news that basecamp will no longer be supporting time tracking in ...
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What do to if a signed project got cancelled?
I have a X dollars project under my belt. It supposed to start on Monday. But client refused to go forward and I waited for them for a week. How do software consulting firms deal with this situations?
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Our Team Finished Our Project Before The Deadline! What Now?
I have 1 project under me and looks like we are ahead of time in this. We told client that the project will be completed in a month, and the developer completed it in 2 weeks. What should you do in ...
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Keeping track of time per developer per task using TFS
I am a 2 month old PM came out as a developer. One thing that I am facing issues here in my company is how to keep track of time per task per developer. Like we are using TFS and we are creating BLI ...
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Which Collaboration Software Do You Use?
We are looking for a new Collaboration-Software. Especially for collaboration, monitoring, reporting, project management, bugtracking, time management, agile software etc.
So I am interested in your ...
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Dealing with non-scheduled time in Project
We build software. We use MS Project. We have projects where someone is booked 100% which really turns out to be 80% with meetings, more meetings, some side meetings, corporate meetings, etc that suck ...
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How can I show scheduling for shared resources?
We have people who work on half a dozen projects at a time (tech writers, testers, etc.). What's the best way to do time planning for resources like this if you have six separate MS Project Plans for ...
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What time tracking / time management software do you use?
I made a few searches for such a question and I did not discover any.
So... have you tried implementing and actively using a software that is tracking employees time spent on different assignments? ...
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What's a more generic, less-loaded name for “operations”?
I'm trying to help better organize the activities of our group. We're largely a service organization (working with faculty and students at an academic institution), but we're a tech group and we do ...
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How to always be updated and manage information only useful to me? Don't want to waste time in my life
How to always be updated and manage information only useful to me? Don't want to waste time in my life.
I mean I don't want to waste my time reading ads and other things which aren't useful to me
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Communicating weekly goals amid uncertainty
If a project's inherent uncertainty prevents accurate planning or resourcing of task effort more than a month into the future, how can project managers best communicate, coordinate, and track ...
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Is there any project planning software out there for Windows that doesn't look ugly?
I realize this may sound biased, but I really like Windows in some respects. I just have been spoiled by Apple for so long that if something looks like it was designed by a programmer instead of a ...
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Time Management & Stress & Anxiety
Last month I was assigned my first job about project management.
But I realized that honestly, I have a problem with time management. I feel always stressed and anxious. More time thinking about ...
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Time managing multiple projects
I am looking for a tool that will let me plan out multiple projects, and have the tasks represented on a single gannt chart so as to keep many projects moving whilst not losing track of position.
I ...
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Putting a project back on track tips
What measures can be taken to put a project back on track and roll-out on time, if it is currently facing issues like: loads of unexpected bugs appearing in system tests, less detailed user ...
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Online Goal Manager
I'm looking for a website that offers free goal management for simple tasks, in the shape of a to-do list. Something that can handle simple tasks with an option to "check" it and automatically archive ...
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How to evaluate task duration?
Another question came up about estimation of budget and time plan estimates for a project. In my answer, I stated that the ground knowledge for time estimate was experience. Does anyone knows a more ...
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Making a budget and time plan for a software project
Let's assume that we are starting a project, but have no previous experience of budgeting a software project.
What should the guys who will work on that project do to make a decent budget planing?
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How do you get the most value out of a PM who can do everything?
This excellent post by Joel struck home (The gorilla with too many hats), and made me think.
Many project managers started out as individual contributors, and may have strong technical skills in a ...
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How often should risk management be analysed and tracked?
I have analysed the possible risks of my project, and I do intend to get back to them from time to time and make sure that the project is safe.
I am trying to figure out how often I should check ...
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How to mix innovation time with project time?
I am attempting to get a proposal going where some time is set aside for innovation, similar to the well known free time at Google, but I fear that one of the biggest argument will be that it will ...
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Managing projects across time zones
When managing a project that involves participants across the globe, it is quite manageable for any two timezones to meet (someone will be at the end of their shift while someone is starting theirs), ...
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How detailed should my time management be?
I work as a freelancer and want to start tracking my time, but how do I decide how detailed this should be?
Currently, I just keep track of the time I spend on various projects, but I don't subdivide ...
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How the Product Owner should prioritize the backlog?
When the Product Owner prioritizes the backlog, should he do this side-by-side with the customer?
This step must be done during the Sprint Planning Meeting, or should be done before the meeting and ...
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How to define a task completion criteria?
You, being a project manager, assign a task to a technical specialist. You don't understand exactly what he/she is doing, since you don't have his/her skills and education. How do you define a task ...
