Questions tagged [tracking]
This tag should be used to questions about observing project metrics for deviations from plan.
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Would gamification increase employee engagement with time tracking?
A typical difficulty in implementing time tracking in companies is that employees are rarely engaged with time tracking tasks, seeing them as a waste of time. I'm wondering if a gamification approach ...
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What are some commonly tracked metrics in Kanban?
I'm currently working with a development group that has a variety of project management approaches. They use a Kanban board for tracking work with a constantly re-prioritized backlog, they have ...
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Individual accountability on agile projects
My organization has been doing waterfall for many years, but we are dipping our toes in the agile pond currently. So far we have had a couple successful projects using agile so everyone is gung ho ...
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What are best practices for bug tracking?
I was looking for some information on bug tracking best practices, but the Google search on this topic wasn't as helpful as I wished; I mainly found about software issues such as writing good bug ...
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What time tracking / time management software do you use? [closed]
I made a few searches for such a question and I did not discover any.
So... have you tried implementing and actively using a software that is tracking employees time spent on different assignments? ...
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Do you track the cause of bugs?
I was thinking of tagging resolved cases by their (probable) cause, e.g.
incomplete feature specification
last-minute fix after test
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Maybe common causes might show up in this, so we get ...
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Should a Scrum team formally track daily commitments?
Should a Scrum team be tracking the daily commitments each team member makes during the Daily Scrum? We write them down in a kind of a mini task manager, and then we mark them as done during the work ...
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Is there a clear benefit to separating "issues" from "tasks" when working in larger teams?
Is there a clear benefit to separating issue from task when working in larger teams?
When working with sizable teams of developers in addition to a number of external clients, QA, and any other form ...
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Can bug trackers be used for tracking tasks other than programming?
I work as an electrical engineer, and sometimes when work gets busy (read: most of the time) there are so many various tasks and things to remember to take care of later that it can get difficult to ...
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Communicating weekly goals amid uncertainty
If a project's inherent uncertainty prevents accurate planning or resourcing of task effort more than a month into the future, how can project managers best communicate, coordinate, and track ...
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How can I track team member utilization across a range of projects?
I have a fixed-sized team (with fixed-hours) and products, more than the team can handle. At any given time, while my resources are working on one product, requests keep flowing in about work on other ...
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Software for task tracking [closed]
I'm remotely managing a team of about 10 persons, and it becomes difficult to track every task and its status. I'm looking for a solution for task tracking. There are already a few of such ...
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How to manage very small, easy tasks in Agile?
Let's say you have a bug on your website. Your developer needs to fix some CSS or something. He estimates it will take him one minute to fix.
What is the best way to manage these kinds of tasks? Do ...
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How often should risk management be analysed and tracked?
I have analysed the possible risks of my project, and I do intend to get back to them from time to time and make sure that the project is safe.
I am trying to figure out how often I should check them,...
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Are there best practices with time tracking?
What are the best practices for tracking time for developers? Our company has recently demanded that all employees track their time spent working daily with little guidance beyond that other than an ...
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Jira story points versus sub task estimation
We are using Jira for agile PM, but are having problems working with both story points and sub task hours estimation.
Articles like this and this just don't seem to help. The second article has a ...
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What should I do in my weekly updates to project plans
Project plans don't update themselves, sadly. So I'm trying to figure out what I need to do to keep them up to date. I can update work complete as tasks get done, but what should I be doing to ...
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Should bug/regression tickets be reopened, or new tickets created?
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This is a paradox I have: when I create GitHub Issues (or JIRA tickets, or whatever issue tracker you use), my engineers like to make them very granular, so that it narrows the scope down ...
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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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Who pays when actuals exceed pessimistic estimates?
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A Developer estimates between 70 to 100 hours for a task. Due to the urgency of the task and the developer's unavailability, a far less experienced developer is assigned to the project. The ...
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Tracking points spent on bugs during sprint
The product owner wants to keep track on how much points are spent on bugs during a sprint. This can raise some issues, such as:
Scoring a task that is already done. Surprisingly even with it done, ...
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Handle the same project over multiple platforms in Agile
I'm working in a company that mainly perform mobile apps with their backend systems.
My question is, what's the best practice to handle the same projects over multiple platforms (iOS and Android) and ...
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What is the way to go to create tasks?
I already read: How to map user stories into tickets?
But I still have difficulties understanding how I exactly should use a ticket system, especially in the case of tickets for new features.
Let's ...
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How to track milestones shared between several repositories?
I watched https://youtu.be/nI5VdsVl0FM?t=226 about how to manage issues with labels, milestones and Projects, but that seems specific to each Github repository.
Say we have a feature push that ...
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How can I update a MS Project plan to show schedule slippage?
Once I've set up my baseline, I like to use the Tracking view to see schedule slippage (ie: is a project going to be "late"?). The problem occurs when I'm updating the % Complete, but a task that was ...
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Keeping Tasks Organized
Currently where I am employed (as a developer) we have two programs to track tasks.
One tool (Ace Project) for larger project that groups several tasks below it, allows for some attachments, and ...
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How do you handle new tasks in an earned value analysis chart?
Earned Value Analysis is great on paper. However, I'm having difficulty using it for programming projects that tend to change dramatically from week to week.
For example, a milestone is "complete ...
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Trying to develop a Project Health Check tool - How can I show the Health of a Project in Dollars and Hours?
My projects generally have 6 areas (Engineering, Fabrication, Assembly etc). Each area has been allotted a budget for a particular project (dollars and hours).
Every week, I get a report on how much ...
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Best usage of milestones in a Gantt
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I'm building a project Gantt, involving multiple teams. In the past I've had a good experience with a Gantt as a means of planning a project but not so much as a means of tracking a project'...
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How to record client requirements?
How a typical Software development company keep records of client requirements? For example:
A) One day client asked us to add a tracking code to his website.
B) Another day same client asked us to ...
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Completely customizable issue tracking system?
I have been looking for an issue-tracking system for some time. Our workflow is not software development. Rather we track changes to documentation across groups of people.
I don't need project ...
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What KPI's or OKR's do you use for individual software engineers?
As a company, we're trying to push more quarterly OKR's into the individual level. We've had success with quarterly goals at the team level (IE code coverage, # of successful releases, up time, % ...
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How to create/track a project Gantt while aggregating multiple functional teams plans
I'm taking over a project as a project manager where several functional teams deliver and integrate. Those teams are also delivering to other projects.
Each of the teams is expected to have its own ...
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Communicate a project easily without MS Project?
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Microsoft Project isn't cutting it as a project communication tool: I have a copy of Project 2010 and so do many other employees, but they cannot be expected to learn how to use this program. ...
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How to Plan a Project with a Fixed Management Deadline?
Take a scenario where the project deadline is predetermined by senior management and the project team is asked to execute.
Is there any methodology which can be used?
How can a project plan be ...
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Is it possible to use HP Quality Center as a task tracking tool?
In my current project, I felt the lack of a sound platform for tracking our tasks, as in my previous project we were using Atlassian's Jira.
Chatting with development managers, they mentioned that ...
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Keeping track of time per developer per task using TFS
I am a 2 month old PM came out as a developer. One thing that I am facing issues here in my company is how to keep track of time per task per developer. Like we are using TFS and we are creating BLI (...
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How can I perform a comparison between baseline and actual hours worked?
How could I calculate cumulative hours worked on all tasks from project start date to current date (status) to get a comparison between projected hours worked (baseline) and actual hours worked (...
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How do you track and measure multitasked work and deliverables between different teams?
Projects have different tasks. As PM, you need to measure how effective the team member with the task he/she is executing. What if the team member multitasks? How do you measure multitasking? I have ...
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How should we capture "non-implementation" work?
Currently we don't capture non-implementation stories and treat any research, analysis, release, and support work as team overhead. This makes it very difficult to predict team velocity.
What is the ...
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Tracking hours for Managers/Scrum Master
Developers at my company log hours in JIRA. Managers/Scrum Masters do not log hours that religiously. They would only log for Scrum ceremonies. As a manager, I can see the reason for not adding my ...
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Methods to track a project (lots of tasks and over a long period of time)
I'm running a project that lasts about 2 years in total, made up of many tasks, some of which are handled by other teams who report back to me. Some tasks can only run when the preceding tasks have ...
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Planning / tracking work which is sporadic / irregular in nature
Within my organisation we have a project that is largely about adding new content/chapters to an existing piece of software.
The content providers for this work often provide content in dribs and ...
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Does the act of measuring progress also slow progress?
I recently read an article on Heisenberg developers. In a nutshell, the author is arguing that the act of measuring progress has the effect of slowing progress.
Does this principle have an official ...
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Dynamically queueing tasks to better plan ahead
I'm no project manager but I have a time management issue. I'm a programmer in a small team with plenty of tasks distributed among many projects and I'm responsible for managing my time.
I'm alright ...
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Should we use different project trackers for different teams working on the same product?
We have been using a popular project tool, Pivotal Tracker. We have decided to break up our product team into 3 separate teams, each focusing on features with a particular theme. There is some debate ...
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One channel per task to track all discussions related to particular tasks in Slack: good or bad idea?
Wanting to quickly see everything that has been said regarding a particular task is very common. And often impossible, because both channels and PM contain discussions about multiple tasks. Therefore, ...
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Improvement on awareness of ongoing/scheduled multiple projects for our client
I work for a project of my client. along with my project there are multiple projects are going on.
Issue: Currently my client doesn't have much awareness of multiple projects which are going on / ...
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Is a Requirements Traceability Matrix a validation or specification technique?
I am quite confused. Is a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) a requirements validation technique or a requirements specification technique?
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How best to manage a shared pool of testing devices (phones), track who has which device? [closed]
Is there an easy way (could be software, but needn't be) to manage a pool of devices as one can a small library? That is, track who has which device, track the status of the devices, when they were ...
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