This tag is for questions about the USAGE or IMPLEMENTATION of materials or methodologies used by project managers to support their work-flow. As a superset tag, the "tools" tag should not be used when there's another, more-specific tag available.
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Mac OS Project Management Tool that Supports Earned Value Management & Monte Carlo [closed]
The organisation I work for is moving all employees to Mac OS, including the project management team.
I am looking at alternatives for MS Project that have as many features, but that are reasonably ...
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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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PM crash course
I have an engineering background and have accepted an offer from a tech company for which I will be leading a brand new web project (mix of PM + tech lead). There is no prior work done except overall ...
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What is better: a physical Scrum board or an online board?
I used to practice Scrum with a physical board. We often faced problems when working with distributed teams or just when going into a meeting room. So I decided to implement a SaaS service to provide ...
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Looking for the best To-Do list tool for windows [closed]
I'm currently fed up with the MS To-Do list outlook tool, Im not sure how other people can put up with such a tool. (Im suing MS Office 2007)
I am more happy with using the reminder app on my Apple ...
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How can we update nested projects in master project
When we open 1 project from MS Project Server , then we can update it easy and fetch changes and publish again to MSPS.
But when we have many project and programs that embedded them in 1 Master ...
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How to calculate execution variance?
Our Program Management office is interested in identifying tasks where the projected execution differs from the planned execution. MS Project's "Duration Variance" field calculates the difference ...
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Can I resolve an issue's sub-task using a FishEye smart commit? [closed]
Context
I have a feature request represented as a JIRA issue with the handle PRJ-11. My issue has a sub-task with the handle PRJ-23. JIRA has the latest FishEye and FishEye Plugin installed and smart ...
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How to calculate breakdown (in hours) of each resource used (open project)?
Using Open Project, how can one calculate time spent on a project by resource?
Given 5 people, I'd like to know how much time each person is spending on the project.
Is it done manually, or can we ...
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How to calculate staff-hours using Open Project?
Using Open Project, how can one calculate staff-hours?
Using Project -> Project Information -> Statistics, is work it? ("Work" is 1,219 hours in my example below)
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Where to write ATs/UATs in JIRA?
In JIRA, if I create a high level user story, where do I put the AT(s)?
If I put the ATs into the user story, say as text "AT: must do blah blah", then the user story gets split into sub tasks for ...
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What should be in an Atlassian toolkit for website PM?
I'm requisitioing some tools for a large scale web development project.
Intending to start with the following:
JIRA for issues tracking, wiki, git or svn hosting
Greenhopper plugin for agile PM
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Should small teams use Continuous Integration?
I recently switched to a start-up organization providing a social network site. In my new organization, we are a small team of 8 developers/designers.
I heard a lot about continuous integration (e.g. ...
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Project component - what exactly is this?
In order to better track issues and plan development of an ever-expanding web application, I am setting up an instance of Trac. As developer, I will use this system primarily, along with the ...
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List of Open Source Project Management Tools [closed]
Right now I'm manager in a small start-up. Getting Budget for project management tools is difficult, if not impossible. This force me to concentrate on open source project management tools. However I ...
