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How to import the employee's work hours to TimeScaleData in microsoft project file using vsto add-in
How to import the employee's work hours to TimeScaleData in microsoft project file using vsto add-in?
Here is the sample data I have,
[{Name:"Phase 1", BaselineStart:"2023-01-01", ...
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MS Project multiple entry dates with hours worked for single task
What is the best way to maintain the following hierarchy in Microsoft Project (.mpp) file?
Country will have multiple Jobs and each Job will have multiple of Phases and each Phase will have multiple ...
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Notification for Newly created Tickets in JIRA project
I need to receive a notication , whenever anyone creates a new ticket in my project in JIRA . The admin has disabaled the default notification feature . I have been told to enable it by JIRA workflow ...
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Who ensures that the backend API is compatible with the user interface?
In SDLC, who is responsible for ensuring that the backend API is compatible with the UI/UX?
Tester, front-end developer, software analyst, or some other role? I think that it's the responsibility of ...
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Looking for some help with a hardware-related question for my business [closed]
I figured that this forum may be the best place for my enquiry, so my apologies if this is incorrect!
I'm a recent AI Masters degree graduate and I'm looking to set my own business up. The problem ...
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See last comments/updates at a glance [closed]
I'd like at a glance to see when each jira assigned to me was last updated, and then for the team as a whole during status meetings without having to open each individually
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How should we manage/point ad-hoc support queries that come in after the sprint has started?
I've come across a slight dilemma which, as far as I could see, has not been answered in Scrum blog posts on the interwebs, nor in this StackExchange.
We started our sprint and a day later one of our ...
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Replacement for Project 2010 that lets multiple users edit at once?
We've been using Project 2010 and have a file saved to our network which we all enter data into and modify to track our projects. With licenses for Project 2010 no longer available, we were looking to ...
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Doing a job in obscure way [migrated]
I would ask a simple question.
When employees do their job in obscure or loosely explained way, or with scarce or ineffective documentation, out of worry their work would be underestmated if it ...
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How to connect Kanban work items to larger initiatives?
We are a software testing team that uses Kanban for visualizing our work. In our backlog we have both work items related to the work of testing but also the work of preparing and maintaining test ...
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Handling Dynamic Sub-task Estimation in Jira without Double-Counting Story Points
My team and I have recently adopted Scrum, and we've chosen Jira as our primary tool for managing sprints and backlogs. As we navigate our sprint planning, we're grappling with an issue related to the ...
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When is it resonable to ask a team member to report on their work at the end of the day?
One team member is elusive in describing the work they've done in the past day during our standup, or the work reported doesn't justify the lack of progress on the work they've been assigned.
Is it ...
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Pay raise linked to velocity?
Is it a good idea to link a team's sprint velocity to bonuses or salary increases?
For example, if one increases the average sprint velocity by 10 percent at the end of a year?
Or are there other ...
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What is the name of the practice of mapping problems and their inter connected relationships?
Some time ago I saw an article about a model where the different problems or dysfunctions of a team (or company) where identified.
Then, once the problems are identified, the relationship between them ...
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How we can calculate the free warranty time for a software application [closed]
I am a freelancer, and I am going to build a software application developed using SharePoint Online as the DataSource, Power Apps and Power Automate. The Project mainly includes automating 14 business ...
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MS Project - adding an exception to a resource calendar for a working day on a defined non-working day throws out % Complete value
I originally asked this question in the 'main' site (link) but given that the behaviour seems to be inherent in MS Project and not to do with using VBA I hoped someone here might be able to advise a ...
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Sprint Review Event
When Sprint Review event should begin? Is it required to have it at the end of Sprint or it can be done at first day of sprint?
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How do I create a running total/ cumulative formula in Microsoft Project
In Excel I can make a chart like this very easily using the formula =SUM($X$Y:XY) where X is the starting Letter of the column on the left and Y is the starting number of the column on the left. The ...
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How to use velocity when PBIs are so large
So, I'm very junior and am wanting to learn PM stuff, and I'm encountering a strange issue in my team.
We want to use velocity as a way to see whether we're improving or not. However, my understanding ...
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What's the difference between Enterprise Architecture and Programme Management?
From a surface-level overview, it seems like Enterprise Architecture is a practice whereby an organisation is re-organised in order that the enterprise can be better at what it does (source: FEAPO). ...
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start after task finish but must end as finish to finish to another task
I have task B which cant start until task A is finished (FS) but must end with task C end date (FF)(i.e. duration of B might be floating depending on the end of task A and end of task C) .. is this ...
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MS project status update with % complete AND actual work
I have created a new MS Project project with a task in it. This task has a "Work" of 360 hours and is assigned to two resources. The task is scheduled with "Fixed units" and "...
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MS Project integration help
My question is how to best integrate the MS Teams & Project Plan 5 for seamless project management and collaboration with my team?
First some background...
My organization has moved from using MS ...
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CJM and its branching
Do I need to build a different Customer Journey Map for each option, or can I combine them somehow?
Example: Let's say we need to make an appointment with the doctor. We can start choosing the date ...
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Does running an agile squad mean that all squad members can do any work, or work should be divided based on skill set?
Consider a new PO running a brand new Agile squad where squad members have different skill sets:
one developer (who works with the code)
one tester / QA person
one application architecture
one ...
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Devops Timeline Estimates
Im having trouble finding sources as to how much time should be allocated for devops tasks that include dockerizing the code, creating ci/cd pipeline (on AWS for example), as well as creating the ...
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How to prioritize backlog in YouTrack?
In Youtrack, how would I keep track of issues that are suitable for inclusion in the next sprint? The backlog is of course larger than just the next sprint.
Generally when going over the issue list we ...
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Next Tasks in Jira Dashboard
I'd like to build a Jira dashboard that allows me to pick the next task easily.
For this, I'd like to order by due date, but for a task that blocks others, the earliest due date of blocked tasks ...
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Can we add user stories in the middle of an Iteration, and what is the likely impact of doing so?
Development of planned user stories is complete. Testing is pending as a part of our Definition of Done (DoD). Can the Product Owner still accept new user stories for the Iteration? What are the ...
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MS Project assigning one resources to multiple task
I need help assigning my Project Lead to a report writing task on a specific day. However, the Project Lead is also assigned to a system testing task that runs for a longer period and has multiple ...
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Let MS Project decide which worker to assign
Say I have a project with multiple tasks and two workers available.
Each worker can work on each task, some tasks need both workers, others only need one worker.
How can I do this in MS Project?
If a ...
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MS Project EVM computation
I wondered how MS Project calculates the quantities that are the basis of the EVM analysis, namely ACWP (AC), BCWS (PV) and BCWP (EV). In fact, starting with a simple plan with only ten tasks, I ...
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Scope creep and creepy stories?
In Agile, Scrum, in which situations is used the word "creep" ? Can I tag or define my stories added in an active sprint as creep?
In my current company, we work using Agile and Scrum ...
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In a Gantt chart, how backwards arrows should be interpreted?
In Gantt chart examples on the web I often find this type of relation between two tasks:
I tend to understand an arrow as "the destination task can't be started before completion of the source ...
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How can we handle urgent work items defined by leadership at the end of a Sprint?
The Change Management Situation
My Scrum Team received 2 urgent and critical tickets from top management at the end of the Sprint with 3 days left. The tickets were related to a feature that was to be ...
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What should my Product Owner do with Poor IT Management?
I am a data engineer, but my question pertains to my curiosity as to what my product owner should do in this case. I'm working on a team which I have recently found out has a high turnover rate and ...
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How do I make these tasks so flexible that changes mid construction are easy to make?
I have 4 tasks A-D, each one is a predecessor to the next. My schedule baseline is A->B->C->D. However, tasks A-C order is flexible and doesn't matter which one comes first, they just can't ...
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Can an operations manager join a team's daily meetings to observe as a "fly on the wall"?
A new operations admin joined the organization and presented himself in the leads channel. He expressed his interest in learning about the teams and their processes, and requested to be included in ...
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How do you measure progress for design works?
We are a software agency that adapts product approach because some of our clients need a discovery process before we actually dive into coding. This is a typical situation when a client comes to us ...
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DEV & QA Story Point Total
If dev thinks a story is 3 and QA says, it's a 5. You don't add them together to get 8, correct? I've always had the impression that whatever the consensus is, that's what the point value will be. ...
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MS Project Custom Field Summary roll up not totalling
I am struggling to see an option in MS Project when using a custom currency field for the the summary task to total. It shows a zero and I dont know how to change it. See screenshot below. Any ...
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Is the Product Owner part of the Scrum Team in SAFe?
I've understood the Scrum Team to be one cohesive team consisting of three responsibility domains:
Development team
Product Owner
Scrum Master
Collectively, we all seek to refine/define and ...
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How do interpret a negative variance value? What does it mean when I have a negative variance in my schedule?
My schedule shows an overall variance value of -1%. Does that mean schedule slippage or the opposite?
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Is it possible to start with the amount of hours each person needs for each task and their availability, then drive the project schedule from that?
Following this question, I have a hierarchical list of tasks. I have asked my team members to tell me how much time they need for each task. I also know the interdependency between those tasks. take ...
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MS Project 2019 (or lower) scheduling algorithm
Whats resource constrained scheduling algorithm is used by MS Project 2019? What RCPSP algorithm is behind a so called a resources leveling in MS Project 2019?
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Automatic hierarchy relationship between custom Work Item Types in Azure DevOps backlogs
When creating custom work item types for an inherited process in DevOps, I can't find a way to configure a hierarcy between them the way Epics and Features are related automatically (Parent/Child).
E....
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What is the field name of Resource Names in MS Project
I'm trying to identify the field name of Resource Names, which I believe is an out of the box MS Project column. I need this information to map this field into a ServiceNow import and came across this ...
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Under what circumstances does resource levelling become necessary?
Sorry for the preamble here - but I think the context is important.
I'm responsible for tracking progress on a project which runs on a NEC3-ECC contract which requires that programmes (implemented in ...
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Trying to add validators in Jira workflow for universal validator?
I am trying to check for the custom field "Create sub-tasks" which is a radio button and has the following value - None, Yes, No. I want to add a validator to check if the value is either ...
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How do I represent a task that starts and ends in one business day
Should the task start and end date be the same? But if I change duration to 1 day, the end date shows the next day
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