Questions tagged [reporting]
Use this tag for detailed questions about how to create or manage reports.
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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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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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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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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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How to automate inclusion of confluence design docs in Requirement traceability report on Jira
If an organization is regulated, it has to pass the audit and show that it has implemented a "requirements traceability". This means it has documented the path from a specific requirement to ...
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How to handle stakeholders' different understanding of project requirements?
As a software tester/QA, how to handle when stakeholders (e.g Project Manager and Developer) have different understanding of project requirements? I understand that this communication breakdown ...
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How do you filter project tags in Azure Devops?
The list of projects we've got in Azure DevOps is rapidly growing and growing. It makes it difficult to focus on areas that need attention across the department though, and is taking a lot of Admin ...
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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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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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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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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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How do you visualize projects progress? [closed]
What reports do you use to track progress of several projects? In particular, what progress visualization techniques do you use?
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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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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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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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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.
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another Jira board for product owners to create issues ...
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How to keep a Scrum of Scrums meeting short and efficient given that reporting on non-technical issues can take a long time?
We are running a project with a team of around 60 people using Scrum. Half of the team reports to one project manager; half to another project manager. Those 2 project managers meet with the test lead ...
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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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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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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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How do you report project status? [closed]
What is the typical project reporting model are you using in your project team? When I say reporting, I am talking about both reporting externally to stakeholders and internally to all team members.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Saving an MS Project Report to a file
Using MS Project 2010, if you click Project->Reports, you have a number of very useful reports, but it seems like the only thing you can do is print them. Can you save them to a file?
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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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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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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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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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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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JIRA - generating work log reports
We are using JIRA to manage our tasks and to allow our client to review the progress and decides what to do next. Our developers are logging their work pretty accurately.
Ideally our workflow would ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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 track large number of similar projects and tasks?
I work in a university unit helping develop online courses. Upper administration wants a way of reporting these out there and how long our people are working on things. Each semester we are tasked ...
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