Questions tagged [pm-software]
This tag is for questions regarding the USAGE of software directly related to project management. Questions about technical support or product selection are off-topic. You should already know what tool you plan to use and what process the tool will automate before writing your question. Use specific software tags (e.g. "ms-project", "jira") rather than this generic tag whenever possible.
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Application Lifecycle Management Tools for a “Buy” Organization? [closed]
I'm working at an organization that is almost entirely a "buy" versus a "build" shop. They prefer to implement off-the-shelf applications than build them from scratch, and have nothing in the way of ...
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How can the Backlog Item's Effort field be auto calculated in Azure DevOps?
In Azure DevOps, under the Scrum template, is there a way to auto calculate the Backlog Item's "Effort" field based on the summation of its child Task items' "Remaining Work" field?
Example:
A new ...
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How to add new state to user story azure devops
When I try to add new completed state to user story or task in inherited process of my azure devops project, I get the following error :
VS403093: Team Services currently does not support changes ...
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Prevent hourly tasks spanning days
Is there a simple way to block tasks from spanning days? I have some tasks such as interviews & exams which are 2 or 4 hours long but they obviously cannot span days.
However MS project is ...
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How to set dependencies in TeamWork app to cascade delays in one task into dates of other tasks?
Let's say I have multiple tasks that are supposed to be taken care of one after another. Each has its own date of completion.
task 1 - will be completed on 15 march (1 day)
task 2 - will be completed ...
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Can I query for “date added to @currentiteration” in TFS?
I am trying to find a way to write a query in TFS to retrieve any PBIs or Work Items that were added to the @CurrentIteration after date X.
Usually date X will be the iteration start, so if that is ...
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What beginner project management software use? [closed]
I'm leading a ten-person team for a 1-year long engineering project, and have no experience in project management. I'm thus looking for a project management software or online service, free if ...
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Printing specific date range in ms project 2016
I am trying to print a specific date range from a gantt chart view in ms project 2016, but all that prints out is the whole project. Can you help?
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Understanding Azure devops burndown
I do not understand why the burndown is looking like it is. Remaining work is higher than capacity - but in the details remaining work is lower than remaining capacity.
Can anyone help?
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How to implement Epics on Gitlab without Enterprise Edition?
We have used Gitlab for 4 years now in our organization, and are growing to the point where we are implementing Agile and trying to follow Epics, Features, User Stories, and Tasks.
We are struggling ...
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MS Project - Multi-year Inflation
I am managing a 3 year project in a country where the average annual inflation rate is 12%. Instead of going through every item and entering "+12%" into the cost rate table for each item, is there a ...
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How to Import Resource Availability from Excel when it varies by month
I have a number of generic resources, eg Engineers, where each individual is treated as interchangeable with all the other Engineers. I want to show their availability as for instance 100% in October ...
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Need help- Documentation for non-technical people using Agile
Now we are using Agile and hardly create BRD\FRD, we create user stories, and all this is good for everyone working in the same department. Including the stakeholders. However, if I would like to ...
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Displaying logarithmic Gantt or Minute-long tasks for event coordination
Is there a way to show minute-long tasks for event choreography on a Gantt chart?
ProjectLibre is my preferred Gantt tool, and I've not discovered a way to change the display to minutes, but tasks ...
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How can you avoid to over-talk topics and just keep the workflow going?
In my company we have this computer guys who always fix the system and add new features. My task in this process is to divide the workload among the developers and to get status updates to the higher-...
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Finding a to-do app to track a particular set of daily tasks given to the team [closed]
We are a small team of developers. We have created a product in text messaging field. Now we have hired few guys for increasing seo of our product website. We have created a list of tasks (...
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Questions about moving from JIRA to VSTS Agile
We have a small team, and most of us are part-time. We have been managing the project using JIRA's simplified software template. We have started using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for continuous ...
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Is it really always bad to have MS Outlook as primary collab system? [closed]
I work in a high tech software engineering in a small RnD group which is a part of a group of about 50 people of different functions. In our small team we tried multiple project management software ...
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How to improve the workflow in laboratory
I am a graduate student in a Computer Science Laboratory since a few years ago.
For the past years I have designed and implemented a fairly cutting-edged complex piece of software along a team of ...
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What work items would look like related to support for a solution in production already?
Our shop is going to continue maintenance of a system in production already. Our next update consists of fixing a bug and creating documentation so that new members joining our team may understand the ...
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Automatically synchronize between Flowcharts (form of PERT charts) and Gantt charts? [closed]
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I'm seeking project-management software tools (be they online/cloud or installed software) that support automatic synchronizing between Flowcharts (a form of PERT charts) and Gantt charts.
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MS Project 2010 task calendar not working
I've created a task calendar for certain transports that can only occur on Wednesdays, with only Wednesdays marked as working time. But when I apply that calendar to the transport milestone items, MS ...
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How best to model project completion by adjusting available resources?
I'm PMing our team of 4 engineers (myself included) but am pretty new to process. In attempting to plan out our work for the next year (and we have lots) I'm looking for the right way to:
List ...
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In Jira-Domo integration, issues with more than 1 sprint show as closed in the first sprint
We set up DOMO to pull from our Jira issues. We noticed that the Velocity charts were not matching up. We realized that for issues that are rolled into more than one sprint - if they weren't complete ...
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What is the best way to manage dynamic sub-projects?
Management of the (non-technical, with team members based in different locations) project I'm currently working on has a huge issue - it is extremely dynamic, with a static team-size. At any given ...
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What does this diagram mean?
I have this figure of "Project Control Cycle" from a book, Software Project Management by Bob Hughes:
It comes under a section "Management Control". There seems to be less description of what is the ...
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Optimum usage of JIRA and Confluence [closed]
I'm working on recommendations for how to use JIRA and Confluence together for an Agile project. Based on experience teams use Confluence for requirements, linking to JIRA for the user stories ...
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Are Tasks and updating remaining hours for Tasks essential for Scrum
I ask because we are looking at Pivotal Tracker, which I believe is a very popular tool for management of Scrum projects, and:
There is no ability to add estimates for Tasks
They don't seem to have a ...
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How to choose project management applications? [closed]
How to choose project management applications? Is it the license, is it ergonomics, wealth of features, .etc?
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pivotal tracker chore: At what rate velocity should increase
The definition of velocity is “Just like a speedometer that measures how fast you’re hurtling through space, Tracker’s velocity is a measurement of how fast your team completes stories. Instead of ...
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pivotal tracker chore: Should chores be picked regularly or one complete sprint should be dedicated to it? At what rate velocity should increase
What is ideal scrum approach:
To fix bandwidth i.e. 10% of every sprint to clear off the technical debt?
To dedicate one/two sprint every year to clear off these debts?
I believe both has its pros ...
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pivotal tracker chore: Should chores be estimated or not?
To give a background, We are web automobile company having a new and used cars portal, something like autotrader usa
We have lots of technical debt pending i.e. moving our pages to new backend ...
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How can I calculate earned value in MS Project with variable costs?
I'm using MS Project to manage training projects as a vendor. We are currently calculating earned value based on the hours budget for deliverables. However, we often have multiple people on the ...
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Scheduling Turnaround execution
In my plant we are scheduling a 5 week turnaround during which we will execute >$10M in upgrades and repairs while the plant is down. We will be using scheduling software to coordinate projects for ...
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On JIRA, how can I restrict a specific status of my workflow to hold only one issue per time?
On JIRA, how can I restrict a specific status of my workflow to hold only one issue per time?
Because we're automating all our workflow, I want to have a specific status (ACCEPTANCE) that only ...
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How to create deliverables column in Gantt chart?
I’m taking Intro to Project Management online and the instructor has required us to produce Gantt charts with deliverables prominently in their own column on the far right. We can use any software we ...
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Should project management software be comprised of the technologies the developers use?
As owner of and project manager for a medium (~20 devs) Rails shop, I find myself constantly sifting through a dozen tabs trying to gauge any given project's current status. My team embraces ...
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How to define work breakdown structure (WBS) with alternative paths?
I'm a beginner with Project Management, but I am trying to apply my knowledge to one endeavour in my job.
I have a deliverable that can be satisfied by two solutions: one more desirable and one less ...
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How to schedule reports in HP Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Center 9.12?
I have several reports, some are running every day, but other are not.
Where can I see and change settings for the scheduled running of reports?
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How to shift to the semi-automatic estimation of the projects?
I am working at a custom software development company. The number of incoming custom projects has increased over the last few years.
The first problem is that not all customers are willing to pay us ...
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Disallow tasks to be marked as complete until dependencies also complete
I would like to create tasks and indicate their dependencies. Lots of software does this but I would like it to only allow a task to be marked as complete when all its dependencies are also marked as ...
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In TaskJuggler, how to manage multiple projects running in parallel
I manage three different projects with TaskJuggler. These project share some of the resources.
I follow these suggestions and created three different .tjp files.
I'm fine for my individual reports, ...
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Concepts of PM tools [closed]
I am currently looking for a not-so-complicated PM tool. I haven't done PM very deep so far, and my overall idea about PM and the representation in PM tools is about this:
There are some employees ...
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In project management software, what should happen if the project is unsuccessful? [closed]
I'm currently developing project management software for my thesis project. What I want to know is:
If the project is unsuccessful, what could possibly happen with that particular project? Should it ...
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Why does project management tool don't have restrictions in their projects? [closed]
I'm currently developing a project management software for my thesis project and I have researched some of the established project management tools for reference of this said project.
But I just don'...
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Is there a need for project restrictions? [closed]
I'm currently developing some project management software and I just wanted to ask few things.
Is it necessary to restrict other members from creating/editing/deleting tasks even if they're not the ...
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How can I create a visual timeline of User Stories / Epics from an Excel spreadsheet?
Ideally, I'd like to use an Excel spreadsheet to generate the following for me from columns of "User Story", "Start", and "End". Even if it didn't take it from the spreadsheet and I had to enter all ...
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How to allocate budget among employees? [closed]
I'm looking for a a way to allocate my budgets among different employees. I need
an overview of all resources on a timeline.
allocate budget parts to different workers, e.g. project A has a budget ...
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Best methods for IT Project Management
I have a person that wants me to build for him a web application and also design the database required. However, his idea quite complex and I got to the point where I no longer work without something ...
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Project start date calculation in a Finish to Finish dependency scenario
In a Project task Finish to Finish relationship scenario, assume there are only 2 tasks in a project. Task B should not be Finished until Task A is finished. Task A takes 2 days and assume it is ...
