Project Management Weekly Newsletter - Tuesday, March 31, 2015

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Top new questions this week: What is the difference between requirement and scope? Scope is divided into two categories: Product scope, which is the features and functions that characterize a product, service, or result, and; Project scope, which is all the work needed to deliver ... requirements pmp scope   asked by CS Lewis 3 votes answered by Mark C. Wallace 3 votes Does the "Plan Scope Management Process" contain many sub-processes? The PMBOK 5th edition has 24 processes for the Planning Process Group. For the Knowledge Area of "Project Scope Management," we have the following: Plan Scope Management Process Collect Requirements ... planning process pmbok   asked by CS Lewis 2 votes answered by CodeGnome 3 votes Managing small + large tasks on a big website with Scrum We're a small team of 4 developers who manage one large website and a group of minisites/mobile apps. We've used JIRA/Agile and Scrum, as best we can, to manage the workflow for the last few months. ... scrum user-stories scrummaster jira epics   asked by xigs 2 votes answered by Ashok Ramachandran 1 vote Assign a resource to a task a some time point in the future I have a long running task, that is beeing handled by one developer. Another developer will be able to help out on that task, but only from some time point in the future on. Is there any way to set ... ms-project resource-planning   asked by JoeyD 1 vote answered by Marv Mills 1 vote Microsoft Project: activity for weekends I have an automatically planned activity that has to take place the upcoming weekend. How can I configure an activity in that way? Thank you very much. ms-project   asked by Robbit 1 vote answered by Marv Mills 1 vote MS Project - How to print the right Gantt diagram from custom view? I'm using MS Project 2010 with a custom view that is showing baseline start/finish as well as start/finish fields of the tasks. I have modified the Gantt chart on the right hand side by cutting all ... ms-project   asked by BIS HD 1 vote How to use Custom Task Field value in Custom Resource Field Formula? I'm looking for a way to calculate the workload of resources using Microsoft Project. The workload needs to be calculated based on the urgency and complexity of the tasks assigned to the resource. ... ms-project   asked by Amir Syafrudin 1 vote answered by Amir Syafrudin 0 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: How do you manage conflicting stakeholder demands? Occasionally, key stakeholders of a given project (perhaps those with organizational authority several levels above that of the project manager) will have conflicting requirements or demands of the ... scope conflicts   asked by Sean Earp 6 votes answered by Pawel Brodzinski 5 votes "Start to finish" dependency example? Can you give me an example of a Start to Finish dependency? Wikipedia describes it like this: Start to finish (SF) A SF B = B can't finish before A starts tasks dependencies   asked by HappyPM 6 votes answered by Iain9688 12 votes Can you answer this? Is this a standard/typical/best practice way to display information on a business value - risk diagram? The image below has a series of projects (letters) tracked in terms of value vs risk. Each project is shown as a pair of nested boxes, with the inner box broken into four quadrants. I have never ... risk business-case   asked by Doug B 1 vote

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