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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?
Start with the "why". What information exactly is it that Senior Management is looking for. What are they using that information for?
It could be as simple as wanting to see progress, or open to ...
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Showing Microsoft Project files to people without Project
Other possible solution would be to upload your MS Project file to google drive. Once there, try to open it and a popup will display asking you to use a couple of free tools:
1. Gantter for google ...
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Scrum Master role: Reporting?
I would start by asking: What is the report and who is it for?
There's no singular right answer - I don't think it's safe to say that "the Scrum Master should create all reports on behalf of the ...
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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'd expand on Joel BC answer - 'why' is the key, and being from a very similar environment (multi location / cultural place with hundreds of people reporting to a single head) I believe that ...
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What is the 'life-cycle' of an issue or exception report
What happens when someone raises an issue or exception report?
Usually it is something like:
Preliminary evaluation of the problem- Is it reproducible? Is all the required information present, etc.
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No Checkpoint Reports
From the strictly technical point of view:
Rise a risk. In this case the risk might be project failure due to insufficient control. The cause of the risk is missing or late reports.
Perform a ...
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No Checkpoint Reports
My understanding of the PMs job is the following:
PM is responsible for the success of the project. The PM is responsible to provide necessary information to the management in order to allow good ...
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Executive Summary Repetition
I have two standard things I use to make status reports more effective; Trending and Graying Out.
Trending: Even on a simple dashboard the use of trending can help create context. Two most common ...
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Executive Summary Repetition
The best person to answer this question is the person or people who are receiving the report.
But I'd take a look at your methodology for generating this report. It sounds like you are generating ...
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In TaskJuggler, how to manage multiple projects running in parallel
For anyone encountering this question, this is how I do it:
Create an overall project file like allmyprojects.tjp
Include all needed tji files with
include "path-to-tji" {taskprefix sub1}
By ...
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Personal Time Tracking report using Atlassian Jira
One of the free option available is to use the browser extension named Jira Assistant available in below url. This extension has lot more useful features which not only helps to generate report, but ...
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Cost management without time tracking in Scrum
If you need to track costs, track it at the Scrum Team level rather than at the individual level.
A simple way to do this is to take a blended cost per person and multiply it by the number of people ...
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Best way to report impact of accepting additional work in scope?
I would have two concerns over using a committed vs delivered metric to solve this problem:
People may not care if you are committing to more points than you are delivering. Some may even see it is a ...
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Best way to report impact of accepting additional work in scope?
TL;DR
Don’t create a custom set of metrics if you can avoid it. Instead, negotiate scope when possible, and leverage the framework’s built-in mechanisms for evaluating opportunity costs against ...
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Tool to manage projects reports
Depending on what it is you are looking for, i see two solutions:
If you want to have some simple progress reports accessible to anyone interested, it probably would be easiest to make them yourself, ...
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Displaying a resource's tasks across multiple subprojects
This you can easily achieve using MS Excel, as Excel provides a good compatibility with Microsoft Project, so you can copy/paste all contents from Excel to MPP and vice versa.
Follow these steps:-
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Consulting and separating internal and external tickets
It sounds like you lack transparency and trust with the customer. If each Story represents value for the customer then the customer should approve, view, and order those things.
That said, you can ...
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How should I classifying my daily project activities into tags?
Find a new company...
To directly answer your question, if there is not guidelines in place already then just make it up. Document in in a "legend" and create codes that are easy for you to ...
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Milestone Reporting Format - Any ideas?
My preference is to use a Milestone slip chart.
Example chart
The horizontal axis is the forecast date, and the vertical axis is the reporting date. The advantage of these charts is that you can ...
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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?
Well.. Your question caption states that you're wondering if you should use daily reports in your team, however as it turns out to be, you cannot decline using such the reports and the issue is ...
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Personal Time Tracking report using Atlassian Jira
You can use worklogAuthor and worklogDate parameters for your needs.
Your query will be like:
project = "My Project" AND worklogAuthor = currentUser() AND worklogDate = now()
You will get all ...
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Best way to report impact of accepting additional work in scope?
When an organization tries to add more work to an already ongoing sprint, the first reaction of the team should be to try to get the ticket on the backlog, so that it can be prioritized along with the ...
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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?
There is nothing in the Scrum Guide that says the Scrum Master is responsible ...
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Is there a report type to document a (Agile) project journey?
You might be looking for a Project Charter. This kind of documents varies a lot from project to project.
With regards to tools and techniques, I share a part of the linked article.
The Agile ...
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What is the most effective way to store and track impediments on multiple projects and having them up-to-date?
Impediment log
Just like you have a backlog of items that you need to build for each product/project, each PO can manage an impediment log with items that need to be fixed or removed from the team's ...
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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 see Scrum terms here (PO, impediment), but in Scrum, impediments are addressed during Scrum ceremonies and it's usually the SM's responsibility to resolve, not the PO. (Unless these impediments are ...
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PM Control Charts using RAG
In my experience, most projects don't score an underspend as "Red" or "Amber", as long as these are genuine savings. However, if they are variations due to timing, then it may be ...
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QA phase reporting for SW development
One challenge is that there is no "right" answer. But this is how I'd get to a "good" answer:
The real problem you're tackling is that middle managers have reason to want both the ...
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What is the difference between "status report" and "variance report"?
Well for starters - baseline(s) could be anything - cost, schedule etc but perfomrance measurement baseline is a subset of all the baselines.
Secondly, status report, as said is focused on vitals of ...
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