Questions tagged [reporting]
Use this tag for detailed questions about how to create or manage reports.
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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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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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Where can I find a free website for managing closed source project development? [closed]
Is there any free webpage/web application for managing project development with these requirements:
Writing public posts of news about project (new version, new logic
etc) - can be as blog posts.
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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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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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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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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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Tool to manage projects reports [closed]
I have a few projects and I want to prepare/update and send reports about them. Could you suggest me any tool/application/web-site which can do the following things:
Describe a project's current ...
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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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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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How to get a good overview of projects using TFS 2012
My team are just evaluating a move to a more agile process and one of the questions that has arisen is how best to track...
Projects (upcoming, in progress, completed)
Team capacity
I'm hoping to ...
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What are the signs that a project is going wrong?
The obvious answer is 'missing key milestones', but that depends on a structured project plan with clear milestones (e.g. waterfall model).
What are some of the not-so-obvious or subtle signs that ...
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Useful charts for a Kanban system
I am aware that Cumulative Flow Diagrams are the norm for a Kanban / swimlane-style system, but I found I derived no useful information from them. I was hoping to see some patterns evolving, but I ...
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Why do we use project RAG status instead of team confidence levels to make it more personal and accountable?
On lots of PM reporting decks you see the usual RAG status and I was wondering why we do this versus simply putting down "confidence levels" that make it more accountable and personal.
"The project ...
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How can I visually represent interdependant resources?
This one may be tricky to explain, but here's the use case. Our organization aims to reduce the amount of "time-stealing" by other staff. We want to eventually see this visual indicator show less ...
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How to properly drop tasks in MS Project that have value
Once upon a time a project that I was managing running was fine, when all of a sudden due to dependencies of another project, senior management decided to freeze the project to focus on something else....
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How to present a "customer impacted" issue to senior management?
In production, there was an issue which impacted many customers. The issue was resolved in an hour but the damage was already done. Recovery is in progress. We need to explain this situation to Senior ...
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What is the name for this type of chart?
I love using burndown charts, but they only work for finite chunks of work.
Since I also help out groups that do continuous operational work, I wanted to develop a similar tool that would work for ...
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Schedule Control
Here's the scenario: You are building a schedule for a project that has a planned duration about three months. You are not concerned about project costs so you will not be doing EV. You are ...
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Can somebody be his/her own Scrum Master in a programming company?
If a programmer in a small company wants to be his own Scrum Master, and Scrum teams are supposed to be self-organizing, does that mean no one can manage him? If that's true, then:
How can he manage ...
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Should meeting minutes be captured during Scrums of Scrums?
We hold daily Scrum of Scrums meetings on our project. The participants (i.e. non-technical managers) each manage several smaller projects and provide updates on their projects (from their daily ...
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How to collect Burn Down data during Sprints?
We just started with Scrum and are in our first sprint for a new software product. So far everything went well. As Scrum Master (former Project Manager) I build up all the knowledge I could find and ...
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Best Metrics to Show the Value of Fixing Bugs
My software development group has spent a significant amount of time recently on fixing existing bugs instead of working on new development.
Using our bug tracking software, I can get data on how ...
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Which Collaboration Software Do You Use? [closed]
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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Would this be a good way of reporting?
I do not know whether I am reinventing the wheel, but I have never come across the following reporting method.
I imagine that if I was to choose a single metric to report to upper management about a ...
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Activity report software/web application [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What time tracking / time management software do you use?
Do you know/use any 'activity report' software? I mean an application, where employees sign in, and report how many ...
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Where should one put a large Gantt chart in a project report?
I made a Gantt chart for my computing project at university. I am writing up the thesis at the moment and I am wondering where I should put my Gantt chart.
I currently have my Gantt chart taking up a ...
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Valuable Information When Managing Multiple Projects
When managing multiple projects at once, what information would be most valuable to a project manager if the projects are related? Not related?
[Purpose is for the development of new project ...
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Shall performance be reported to the project team?
Report Performance is one of the processes being done by a project manager in every project (according to PMBOK). Performance metrics have to be reported to a project control board in order to allow ...
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What are the best metrics and reports for doing strategic application portfolio management?
We are a technology organization supporting a line of businesses.
We are currently managing a large budget with a portfolio of over 100 applications and hundreds of projects that impact these ...
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Tools and methods to report and quantify delays
My question is really about right metrics to report when looking at a set of projects and functionality of project management tools which help in highlighting these metrics.
We are trying to do ...
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