Questions tagged [reporting]
Use this tag for detailed questions about how to create or manage reports.
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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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How to represent time durations (e.g. time spent), in Excel, in hours-minutes-seconds?
Our platform has Excel reports with fields like Estimated Time or Actual Time spent on a task. These fields are not standardized - in some reports, time values are represented as 10.8 mins, 0.22mins, ...
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Toggling the format of dates in MS Project
I often have to change the format of the date to check and "adjust" new sequences activities. It is very inconvenient to click always through the menu so I tried to find some VBA-macros for ...
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MS Project Dynamic Portfolio Reporting
I have a team creating projects in MS Project. I need them to share their projects with me (in sharepoint?) so I can pull individual reports in real time. I then need to take those dynamic projects ...
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Finish Date not correct
I have one task that starts on 8/1/22 and ends on 1/23/23, but the duration is 2.5 days. The end date isn't calculating correctly.
I have theses resources assigned to the task, total 27.2 baseline ...
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What is the difference between "status report" and "variance report"?
Quoting Rita Mulcahy's book-:
Status report-: This report describes where the project currently stands regarding the performance measurement baseline.
Variance report-: A variance report compares ...
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QA phase reporting for SW development
In our project, we have a testbook with some test scenarios to be performed by a QA team. Each scenario must be tested on multiple device/OS/browser (in this particular case, just 3 combinations), and ...
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PM Control Charts using RAG
When using a RAG (Red, Amber, Green) scoring system on control charts for cost and schedule, would you score a variance from green to amber and then to red the further you move away from a zero ...
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What is the most effective way to store and track impediments on multiple projects and having them up-to-date?
I am facing a problem of registering the impediments in one place from several projects that we are running at the company.
What I have tried
another Jira board for product owners to create issues ...
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Dynamically updating filters in a dashboard
The team I'm on has a couple of JIRA dashboards for our projects tracking tickets that were completed. Our process is to create a filter for that weeks completed issues, and then create a new ...
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Is there a report type to document a (Agile) project journey?
My main goals are to
document our current methodology,
share our team's story of changing and adapting, and
share evaluations of our improvement.
Ideally, I'd like to share this report with our ...
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Manage activities of a group to make monthly reports
Recently I'm managing a group of people. It has 3 areas, with each area having an average of 7 people; there are 20+ people.
To make a monthly report to my boss, I am faced with the following problems:...
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Scrum Master role: Reporting?
Is the Scrum Master responsible for creating reporting on behalf of the development team to drive continuous improvement?
I currently do this, and use that as a basis to improve processes.
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Create MS Project report which to return incomplete tasks per user with due date
I want to be able to produce a report I can share with resources on a project so that they have visibility on what outstanding tasks they have (overdue, current, future) and when they are due.
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Best way to report impact of accepting additional work in scope?
Org I work in is trying to be agile, but often struggles with respecting the committed scope during a sprint and keeps forcing us to accept new work. This is coming at a cost; happiness and quality.
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Report in MS Project (Hr/task/resource)
I am trying to find/create a report in MS Project 2013 in order to display hours done in a month by a certain group of resource or a resource only (they are already grouped in the Allocation tab) with ...
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Cost management without time tracking in Scrum
In my company I'm responsible for several software development teams. Lately our managers asked me to establish a time tracking system for our developers to have better overview over the actual costs ...
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Is it possible to sort JIRA tickets in the Reports area?
the question is very simple. Scenario is a Scrum Project.
I would need to be able to sort tickets in the Reports are of a Scrum Project. Currently those tickets are separated per area, as Completed, ...
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What to do with control chart data?
I am running a kanban project, I am collecting cycle time data via control chart, what is the best way to use it?
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Personal Time Tracking report using Atlassian Jira
I'm a software developer and I'm asked to log my time in Atlassian Jira for each of the subtasks we have in all the open stories. Sometimes we are in rush and I forget to log some time in the many ...
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Can you extract issues from Jira on premise for reporting to management?
We have had a lot of success using JIRA for our risks, issues, decisions and milestones. What I want to do, though, is to have these queried and represented on a dashboard with Gantt charts, issue ...
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Why does my Earned Value curve go back to zero
I managed to simulate a project in MS Project 2013. I created an initial planning, assigned ressources and put this in a baseline. Then I imagined two status for my project in two different dates.
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Should I ask developers to report hours in daily reports or ask them to keep the task tracking tool we use with this level of detail?
I am the IT manager in a company having 30 people in the IT team.
There are 3 major teams, each with 7 to 8 people, + few other smaller teams. Different locations, cultures and timezones.
Having ...
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Milestone Reporting Format - Any ideas?
If I'm expecting the delivery of around 50 items from a contractor, each with their own forecast delivery dates and agreed need dates, what is the optimal way to track the forecast dates each time it'...
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Effective Status Reports - How to bring management attention?
How should I structure my weekly status report in such a fashion that I can have senior management attention to the issues being reported?
Being objective, how to properly and effectively report
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How to know when the project started in JIRA?
I am an admin for JIRA project following SCRUM approach. I am trying to report to my direct manager when the project was started.
I went to Settingsand Timesheets.. and many places. And I cannot ...
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How to generate a lead time report in JIRA without a plugin?
Has anyone compiled a lead time report (in any format) from JIRA without the use of a plug-in?
If so, how did you do it?
The native Control Chart tracks cycle time but not individual times for ...
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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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Report to Show Work During Current Week Only
I need to create a work-ahead dashboard for my team, for weekly planning meetings.
We have tasks that span several weeks, so a task may be needing work in the current week but not starting or ending ...
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What process changes can I make to more accurately track both collaborative stories and individual time within Jira?
I'm currently working with an organization that is using the Jira Tempo Timesheets plugin to track developer time, but the way that Jira stories and tasks are being used fails to capture overhead ...
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Gantt charts with ranged estimates?
I'd like to create Gantt charts with ranged estimates (for reporting to non-technical execs) but don't want to use a web service (LiquidPlanner). How can I get Gantt charts with range estimates?
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Executive Summary Repetition
This might be an intuitive question but it seems that not much people knows it.
Should I repeat information from last report's executive summary or should I only write what happened the week before ...
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Consulting and separating internal and external tickets
So, I'm helping an agile software consulting company to create a workflow between themselves and their customers.
The goal is to provide the customer with an Agile way of approving features (stories) ...
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Is there a way to use your customized fields in reports created in MS project 2013?
I have some customized fields that I've created. I really need to find a way to use them while I'm creating customized reports in MS project, but I just see the built-in fields when I want to create ...
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How should I classifying my daily project activities into tags?
In the company where I work, I need to fill out a timesheet specifying how I spent my working hours for each project. I need to put the amount of time spent, and also a comment about how I spent that ...
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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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How to draw stacked column chart with custom text fields?
I am working on a report on MS Project 2013. In this report there is chart.
The chart is based :
NumberOftasks (Y-axis) which is a custom field of type number.
Localization (X-axis) which is done by ...
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Displaying a resource's tasks across multiple subprojects
I am having a bit of an issue getting the kind of report that I want from MS Project 2010. To get some background on my project, I am creating a master scheduled using multiple templates. The ...
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What is the quarterly report called after fourth quarter?
First of all, I apologize for such a minor question. I am not sure if this is a suitable platform for this. I am responsible for submitting quarterly reports for a project. I am doing this since last ...
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No Checkpoint Reports
I am running a Prince2/Waterfall project that is currently about 1/4 of the way through a 8 month timeline. I have been having trouble with Work Package owners not providing me with Checkpoint reports/...
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EVM in Research and Technology
Earned Value Management (EMV) sounds like a great and objective method for reporting.
Precondition for applying EVM is that tasks or results are well defined and well distributed during the project.
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MS Project Professional 2013 Email Notifications
I am attempting to use MS Project Professional 2013 to send out automated outlook e-mails the week before a task is due among other automated e-mail tasks. Is this possible with the desktop program or ...
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What is the 'life-cycle' of an issue or exception report
What is the 'life-cycle' of an issue and exception report. I've seen the reports, and it looks like only one sheet that needs to filled out once. Of course, it may not be filled out completely at the ...
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Work statistics report for resources
I have a master file with several sub-projects and resources assigned to them.
Is there a way to make a bar chart in Project Pro report that shows the work hours for resources based on the sub-...
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MS Project 2013 Reports: ACWP in Timephased Line Chart does not match ACWP in Column Chart or Table
Version: Microsoft Project 2013 Standard (15.0.4420.1017)
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I am creating a report in MS Project 2013. When I create a time-phased line chart containing ACWP, the ACWP shown in the chart for ...
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Is reporting project progress in % to supervisors acceptable?
Currently I am working as a Project Manager in a big software project.
Currently my supervisors require me to report each week to report the project's progress in percentage form, as in the example:
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linked tools together without micro managing?
so I'm managing a project thats larger than my normal scope - and while I'm pretty much on my own, some tasks will be handed out to others, and I need to report nearly daily on where we are at.
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How to get a good overview of team member utilization across multiple projects in TFS 2013
I would like to be able to see a weekly summary of scheduled hours of work across all TFS Team Projects in TFS 2013 for myself and other team member. This would, for example, let me look a few weeks ...
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Showing Microsoft Project files to people without Project
The project managers at my company were asked to use Microsoft Project 2013 to track our projects, but many of the business stakeholders do not have Project installed. It looks like I cannot just ...
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What is the best practice when trying to group projects for reporting?
We have a portfolio of applications and projects and we are trying to come up with a way to group projects into logical buckets for reporting, etc.
Right now we have the following constructs:
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