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MS Project - Custom Cost Columns - by Resource Group
I am trying to create two custom columns that shows "Cost by Resource Group", but I don’t know how to write the formula.
In my example, in the last row, Group A should be $160 and Group B ...
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Any good newsletters, blogs, YT channels on latest trends and news in PM?
I know that as a PM is super important to stay updated on trends and news in the field, especially now that AI is in the game. I am already following PMI, but do you have any other places that you use ...
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I need to generate a report for a single task type from mutriple reports
I am the Director of Safety for a a large construction company. My company uses MS Project as a scheduling tool for all of our jobs. Each job has its own MS Project file. I am not very familiar ...
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MS Project - Format if predecessor ends after the successor starts
I am a project manager and new to Microsoft Project. We are currently supporting a multi year program which just kicked-off, and need to align 8 workstreams. Each workstream has created a workstream ...
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Project timeline view MS Project
I am trying to come up with a project timeline something similar to what OneWashinton project has - https://one.wa.gov/project-information/phase-1a-financials/phase-1a-project-schedule.
I am using MS ...
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Calculate cost of each task based on resource group name
I have a construction project with several tasks and resources with associated costs.
Each task has several resources assigned.
I have assigned a Group name for each resource - "manhours" or ...
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Breaking Down User Stories into Actionable Scrum Tasks
I'm currently facing an issue related to Scrum. We are tasked with creating a self-organized IT project from scratch and are responsible for everything. We started by defining the project requirements,...
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MS Project - Issues with calendar and gantt chart
I am a happy user of the MS project and has made some new calenders called "6 days week" which will allow saturday to be a working day and only sunday off + a "7 days week" where ...
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What qualifies for PMI CAPM certified education hours?
I want to start the path for the CAPM Certification. The PMI site says: "23 hours of professional education courses." I have some questions about that.
Should I take the PMI preparation ...
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Best practice to mark user stories/PBI whose development is waiting for some external condition to be fulfilled
If we have some Work Items (User Stories/Product Backlog Item and/or Tasks) that can't be finished because they are waiting for some external dependencies like:
an authorization to be granted,
an ...
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Scrum board for two different applications under same project
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I have one JIRA project - ABC, and it has two applications A1 and A2.
Both of these applications are worked by different teams and have different PROD release lifecycles.
They have different ...
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What are some good guidelines for descriptions in Jira tasks?
I have seen in many projects how product owners just assign tasks that have only a title but an empty description. Somehow work still gets done, but oftentimes, there is lots of ambiguity. People will ...
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How to create separate boards for different teams in Jira Kanban?
If you need to manage WIP limits based on user roles or specific team members, a common workaround is to create separate boards for different user groups or issue types. Each board can have its own ...
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Scrum using github projects: How to incorporate epics
I identified 3 different ways of adding epics on github:
use github milestones to represent epcis:
create a label epic. The actual epcis are then issues with the label epcis. The stories are then ...
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How Can I Improve Collaboration in My Agile Team?
I’m a senior developer in an Agile team and have been facing challenges with collaboration and team dynamics, despite receiving positive performance reviews this year. One recurring issue is the lack ...
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