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Consider a company that:
works on an own product(not a contractor),
the product has already been released(but is expected to need years of further active development),
the product is a consumer app(...
Bases on the theory of the Eisenhower Decision Matrix, one is supposed to dedicate time preferably to the Quadrant 2 (Q2): Not Urgent but Important Tasks. (reference: The Art of Manliness)
Is to-do ...
Does the following sound similar to some established (now or in the past) practice?
One big whiteboard per team.
Tasks are written down in a single short sentence(e.g. "refactor Frubnicator" ...
Here is a TFS Scrum board I got from Internet:
I want to know if it is possible to customize the card, as it does have the name of attributed person as redundant information. I would want to replace ...
I have a project that I have 15 main tasks on. One of them is Meetings. I have had X meetings, and the duration is 1-day. Is there any way to show multiple bars on a single line showing these Meetings ...
Is it possible to make it such that single-issues (stories without tasks) can be tracked the same way a story with one task can be tracked? At my company, stories with no tasks are put under "...
We use Story Points for estimating complexity of User Stories, but we bill hours to the client. This is the very first Scrum project within our company, and we don't have enough data to calculate a ...
I've been using other tools for awhile and have to jump back into MS Project.
I started a high level plan with tasks and resources, however, I'm having trouble remembering the specifics around Task ...
Is it possible to use a formula to get information from "TASK A" as an input "work" in task B?
Example:
Task A is fixed duration of 2 weeks. I have assigned some resources and the total work they do ...
I know this is not a specific question and I could rephrase it as such if necessary.
I am seeking recommendations on how to manage an individual (my own) task list or how best to create a work ...
Let's say we have five Stories, A, B, C, D, and E. However, while D and E are clearly separate business requirements and should be tested/documented separately, the technical requirements are related/...
I am making plan for my personal project.I have deadline for top level task(Project Planning- 31 days). I have rough idea of how I can divide these 31 days among sub-tasks. For example, Problem ...
I am working in MS Project with a project someone else set up. This project contains 29 activities which are auto scheduled, has a minimum start date constraint on an activity, and two milestones. The ...
For the next sprint, Jira displays the total number of story points in the backlog, calling it "Estimate.". This number leaves out tasks, which are estimated in hours, not story points. This makes it ...
I'm a data analyst. I get assigned small projects.
The projects usually take anywhere from 1 day to 2 weeks to complete.
An example would be: Create a system/query that will generate a list of roads ...
I'm attempting to build a schedule and use MS Project to calculate dates and flow, based on constraints and task linking, but am unable to overcome an apparent issue with how the 'Late Start' is ...
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 ...
We have a standard calendar work week. (Monday to Friday with weekends off)
Our resources have "standard" calendar - so scheduling as standard for them is a normal work week.
However, we have ...
According to Wikipedia, the ABCD analysis is:
Activities are ranked by these general criteria:
A – Tasks that are perceived as being urgent and important,
B – Tasks that are important but ...
My team is building a web application that has the following high-level user story:
As a user, I would like the ability to bulk exclude components from a
given country.
The work breaks down into ...
I am building a project plan on Microsoft Project 2013 and can't understand why it is not allocating a resource.
I have a task set as auto scheduled, fixed work, with a 7 day effort assigned to a ...
I need to come-up with a project plan for migrating a legacy web application to a ReactJS based application.
The legacy web application is written in Vanilla JS, HTML, CSS and there are approximately ...
I had been reading on structuring VSTS. The guideline on structure of projects isn't very clear.
Our scenario is that we have lots of projects and only a small team of 3 developers, 2 testers and 2 ...
I recently installed a few apps (like BigPicture) which help you see the order of work of each programmer. The problem is that when I link some tasks with estimates less than one work day, the Gantt ...
I am trying to update my ms project plan with the following:
- replan al 0% and partly completed tasks from the new status date.
- Tasks can be split up
- Plan based on priority and available time for ...
I'm fairly new to Scrum and I'm working with a group of colleagues on a project to learn more about it. Long story short our project is simply creating a website for tourists of our country where they ...
I have a summary task, and have the 'Leveling Can Split' option set to No.
The four subtasks which are in sequence, also have LCS set to No.
In the Leveling options I also have 'Leveling can create ...
Are the Earliest Occurrence time and Latest occurrence time same as the Earliest Event time and Latest event time or are they different? If they are different can you please explain to me what are EOT ...
I had been in a situation where details about the task and the target to be followed have been explained to the team. However, in spite of multiple follow-ups, they fail to complete the defined tasks ...
We're struggling to break Product Backlog Items (PBIs)/User Stories into Sprint-sized chunks as we have multiple steps that need to be completed in a linear fashion.
Each release goes through ...
I'm trying to schedule a few tasks in ProjectLibre and I'm also fairly new to PM
The problem
Suppose we have Person1, and he'scheduled on two tasks (100%):
Install device (duration=1hr)
Test ...
How can I show the main (resource with maximum hours) for Summary tasks.
I suspect I would need to set a custom text field to show this, but how would I structure this?
thanks
My team and I are implementing Scrum in our project. We are at the phase of dividing user stories into tasks to assign to each developer.
I understand the concept of Slicing the Cake where a user ...
I want to represent a task which only takes place at specific days on MS Project: for example, on 01/01/2018 between 9:00 and 11:00, on 03/03/2018 between 10:00 and 12:00 and on 12/03/2018 between 11:...
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 (...
At my company, we often have meetings where we brainstorm / plan for next steps for our projects. After the meetings, I feel like I have a bunch of stories to write, and creating thorough and ...
We have a need to create a template checklist for our workflow and at a past job we had a template checklist that had various tabs for each process of the workshare that needed to be complete. For ...
We have a startup and it is our first experience. We want to create a mobile application and its website implementation.
We have 3 main parts:
Mobile application
Website application
A server that ...
I had already defined a bunch of tasks, and assigned resources 1 and 2. The durations of the tasks were calculated on the resources Max Units availability at the time of assignment. Later I went ...
When something needs to be done, be it a new task or getting help with an existing one, a knee-jerk reaction I've often seen in the wild is finding a person to do it.
Here are some random examples of ...
I work within a small team of developers. We don't track our time so we have no data to work off when we give estimates. Basically, I'm wondering if it's possible to have a successful plan and give ...
So I have Task A,B,C,
Task B is based on CSF-5, (needs to have finish date 5 days prior to C date), but I want the task to kick off as soon as Task A is completed.
Is there a way to set that?
...
I inserted the actual start for updating a task and then inserted the %comp and reschedule and resource leveling for the plan with ms project 2013. The problem is that the task has been split in ...
I am relatively new to the Scrum way of working and was wondering what to do with small tasks. Besides the main User Stories, we always end up with additional requirements or small changes after the ...
We run a sale of second hand goods from clients. We would set a target say 200 items this season and start contacting people we know who have items they want to sell. We would spend about 2 months ...
We have a DevOps team which includes a BA, .NET developers and SAP developers. The .NET and SAP developers can and will only work on their particular discipline.
Some of our stories involve only .NET ...
This is my first ms-project. I want to plan the production and external operations of our plant.
Production of reference #1 is something that will likely happen every 4 to 6 weeks (every time I ...
I'm trying to set a task to either be wholly complete by 1st Dec, if not then start after 1st Jan (i.e. don't start at all if it can't be completed by 1st Dec). I don't want to split the task.
Is ...
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