Unanswered Questions
177 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Hiding a specific time period in Microsoft Project
Question
Good morning,
Is it possible on MS Project Pro 2019 to hide a period of time between two dates?
Background
Our construction projects are divided into 3 stages: (1) pre-construction, (2) ...
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Determine to which task a resource is allocated on a particular day
Using a shared resource pool for several project plans (each plan is contained in a separate file), what is the simplest way of working out to which task a given resource is allocated on a particular ...
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Is the Crystal methodology still practised anywhere?
The Crystal methodology is fairly often included in lists of Agile methodologies and it is easy to find articles from recent years giving an overview of it and comparing it to other Agile ...
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Change task distribution with % completed
I'm using MS Project 2010. When assigning a task with duration say 5 days and work of say 10 hours. Then MSP distributes the occupation for that resource over the whole duration.
e.g.
Mon 2h | Tue ...
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How can I create a task for two developers to support testing?
I'm trying to create a timeline for server migration. Typically when it comes to testing our developers spend about 25% of their time supporting the testing. (Running batch processes, answering ...
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How can I show short tasks (less than 8 hours) in a JIRA Gantt chart?
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 ...
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Auto-populate Lookup values from a custom field
I have written below code for custom field 'Product_task' to take values selected for field 'SFDC Product'
as options. However this doesn't seem to work always. Please let me know your suggestions.
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How can I see 'next available' tasks in MS Project?
I'm used to creating project checklists in software such as OmniFocus, which shows me 'next available' tasks: those that are available now, aren't deferred, whose predecessors have been completed, etc....
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Ms project - Avoid task split up in minutes
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 ...
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What is the term you use for a user that is a developer?
When developing a UI components software library, the "immediate" user of the library is not the end user interacting with the components on a website, but the developer who takes those ...
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Ticket/task managment for multiple repositories on a same application
I'm looking for an improvement when managing work on one specific project.
Right now we have one application that has 3 repositories that are querying the same database. All three repositories (...
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Is PRINCE2 truly in public domain?
I am a bit confused. I know PRINCE2 was released to be public domain in about 1990 but then I wonder why I cannot find any site (apart from prince2 wiki) with its content? Also, what is Axelos then an ...
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Can I track tickets from one project in another?
I am the QA lead for a company that has multiple teams with their own projects in Jira. Is there a way I could track Jira tickets from for example, the engineering board or bug board in the QA board ...
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Is it possible to restore a single project plan from a full database backup
Using MS Project 2013, one of our PCO deleted tasks from a project plan, while work had been entered via timesheets on those same tasks, some of which weren't approved, yet.
The project is now in a ...
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Using Asana Boards in Kanban mode
Our (software development) team is using Asana and has broken down requirements, which were entered into the list view of Asana.
We have sections representing epics, and tasks below them representing ...