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5answers
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What are your top software tools for project management?
Which tools do you use for project management?
Which of these tools is most important?
If you didn't have a very big budget, would you replace these tools with some open source t …
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3answers
143 views
How to assign number of resource units in Microsoft Project 2010
I have the following project scenario: 1 scientist, 1 mechanic, and 2 engineers. Each can be "used up to" 80, 100, and 90 percent. I can't figure out how to write it into the resou …
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10answers
166 views
Recommended Web PM Tools
Hi!
I'am looking for Project Management software tools that meet the following requirements:
Pay per use / user (Software as a Service)
Fully Web Based
Gantt chart support
Time …
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3answers
55 views
MS Project for software development projects?
A little while ago I came across this blog post "Why MS projects sucks for software development".
I'd be interested to hear other opinions on the efficacy of MS project for managi …
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11answers
441 views
What are some of the best Agile Project Management tools out there?
My company is kicking off a BI project in January. We're currently doing some research into agile tools on the market. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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5answers
166 views
PPM Tools suggestions needed
We are looking for PPM tools. We have an extensive project portfolio and are in need of a good PPM tool. Preferably hosted, like daptiv.com
Let me know what you are using. what ar …
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6answers
224 views
In a typical 1 year / 6 person software development team, what is the optimal percentage of development hours to functional hours?
I'm working on a typical internal web/database app for a large corporation. By typical, I mean, a project that was projected to be 4 months and $300,000 looks like its going to be …
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9answers
242 views
Does it help to use a software to do the WBS?
I just discovered that Microsoft has a software to do WBS -> Visio WBS Modeler.
So far I was always doing my WBS in PowerPoint.
Is it useful to have a special software for doing t …
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3answers
226 views
Does anybody know a good (freeware) tool to automate a milestone-trend-analysis?
I am looking for a tool that does a milestone-trend-analysis with a graphical representation (chart). I have seen only one real tool out there from a german company TPMG but that c …
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2answers
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How to generate advanced worklog reports in Jira?
The Background:
We're running a SCRUM software project using Atlassian Jira. After the first few sprints we noticed that we are not on track, i.e. our actual effort is by far gre …
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3answers
315 views
Scrum with Team Foundation Server
Recently, we pampered TFS (Team Foundation Server) and with a great help from stackoverflow fellows we successfully through from adoption.
Month ago I asked a question on stackove …
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3answers
94 views
Software for planning projects and daily tasks
Hi,
I tried several programs (things, to-do lists, etc) for mac os x and I have not found at the moment a satisfactory solution. I want to specifiy projects, then add tasks for th …
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7answers
119 views
My client wants to shield my company from the customer
My company is negotiating providing a small software dev team to a client. However he's not the customer, his client is. It's important to him to be providing the software services …
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3answers
33 views
Is (can) the education system provide entry level candidates for Agile environments?
While reading the scrum and not-scrum related questions on the this site I started to wonder if the education system is trying to produce graduates who will easily fit into a cross …
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2answers
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Average Cost for a Site License for mid-size Business
I'm just trying to get a feel for the average cost of a site license (i.e. unlimited users).
I see that Fogbugz (not a true PM, I know) has it for $9999, while JIRA has there's at …

