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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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How Should I Structure a Product Backlog With Overlapping Features Across Platforms?
I’m a Product Owner managing a project with the following platforms:
Mobile Application
Website (responsive for desktop and mobile)
Admin Panel
Our website offers these features:
Home Page: Banner, ...
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Risk of Delay in Tasks that require review or multiple approvals
I work within the IT Banking Industry as an IT project Manager , most of my projects follow the waterfall method , one of very risky areas where the plan get's delayed and tasks get dragged are design ...
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How to Mitigate Risks Before Delivering a Project with Limited Testing?
I’m currently leading a project where I completed 80% of the work myself because I felt a strong expectation from the team to ensure timely delivery. The rest of the team contributed about 20%. Due to ...
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Tracking environment of deployment of User Story in Azure DevOps
How to track environment of a User Story / Requirement deployment in Azure DevOps?
What's the recommended way to track which environment a User Story / PBI/ Requirement is deployed to? We have DEV ...
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Reassign tasks on Team Planner view without changing the time
I have a project with roughly 500 tasks, and have now leveled it to fit within the resources I have given it. One of my resources is called "Logistics Team", and I have played with max ...
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How to set ut jira projects for multiple project managers and multiple teams with different workflows
I work at a relatively small tech company. We have a cloud team, an embedded/electronics team, and a PLC team. We do projects towards several customers which are regarded as separate projects.
I try ...
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Azure DevOps - Share only specific EPIC (and the children) across team boards
I'm setting up a Team A board in Azure DevOps for a new small project. This project is within an existing, larger Program B, which means some of the works from Program B's backlog will be carried out ...
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How to keep junior team members in awe
Being a lead, How to keep junior team members in awe?
I mean to make them have feelings of respect and either fear or admiration.
Being a leftist sometimes I easily get friend-zoned by team members ...
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Change Management
I am currently managing a project that is midway through execution. Unfortunately, the project is behind schedule and over budget, which is affecting overall progress. Recently, the customer has ...
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losing product ownership
I've been appointed as product owner of an application. I have a good understanding of we need and how to achieve it. So I jump wherever I see I can contribute to achieve the goal.
Usually that is ...
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Tracking schedule dates that can occur once annually
I have a strange situation that I need to resolve for a project I am planning in MS Project 2021.
The schedule dates have multiple dependencies due to leaseholds, including cancellation dates and ...
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Why is MS project 2019 task not reflecting the finish date of the predecessor it is connected to?
As you can see, both dependencies are task four but they are not starting concurrently. Why is this?
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Appropriate sources of understanding for non-technical stakeholders
If working software is the primary source of truth in an agile team, with techniques like self descriptive software and unit tests, how can non-technical team members and business stakeholders (like ...
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Limiting Tasks in MS Project 2016
BLUF: I only want the resource to have a max of 2 events per day in autoschedule mode.
I am building an automatic flight schedule, where i have a template that is the student syllabus, with a single ...
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Ideal approach to visualise cost replacement migrating from vendor A to B
I'm trying to wrap my head around how to approach my task.
I have vendor A who is deeply integrated in my organisation and I am replacing them with vendor B.
I'd like to show where I am cutting down ...
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