I am taking up new Project Management responsibility at my work place. I consider myself a novice in the Project Management domain as I am more of Quality Assurance Manager.
My first task is to identify best software tool which can be used both for Project Management/ Testing at one place. Our group handling between 10 to 15 agile projects (per month) on an average.
Typically this software should provide following:
1. Cloud Based
2. Resource planning/ Utilization
3. Ability to import/ export project artifacts
4. View reports like GANTT charts,
5. Project Status tracking
6. Project Risks tracking
Testing
Test Plan/ Case creation
Test execution reports/ Status
Defects
I really appreciate if any one of you could share your experiences.
Most projects have a Change Control/Review board consisting of mostly senior project management team. They would review all Change Requests either at a specified weekly meeting, or through a process of change review forms, circulated to each member for consideration for approval.
If there is no board, elect one, as unless you have a broad range of reviewers who each understand the business to some degree, changes could be processed that may impact on another area of the business. I have come across scenarios where there were not enough qualified reviewers who could properly assess whether a change would impact any or all areas of the business, which ofcourse leads to problems too many to mention.
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Submitted by Tomas Rivera on Mon, 2002-03-04 12:03
If I understand your question correctly, your concern is a basic one. When you have a schedule of many activities, you must have activity codes. These codes relate to diferent aspects or needs of the project.
For example the responsible person or department, trade, design discipline, location, project phase, priority, etc.
Then, you use these codes to create summary reports. For your case you can have a Design report or layout which could have one summary bar for each one of the design disciplines. Depending on your needs you can have in that report columns for percent complete, total float and ES or EF dates. You should also have a baseline schedule to measure performance and probably show a second bar (or thick line) for the baseline (target) schedule for each design discipline.
That way management can look at each discipline and be able to asses the general progress of each discipline and tell whether they are ahead or behind schedule. If they have questions and want to see more detail, you can have a detailed report for each discipline and explain for example which activities in a certain discipline are delayed the most.
Normally, the managemnt interest in the overall submission progress, the submission performance of each work trades, when the design team can be scaled down and etc.
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Submitted by Tomas Rivera on Sat, 2002-03-02 11:06
First, let me understand why you have so much information for an engineering design project? How many activities are you talking about?
The main means for analysing a large schedule is by using activity codes. You sort and filter by these codes and other schedule parameters to look at different parts of the schedule.
What are your specific needs?
What do you need to analyze?
What is the information management is interested in?
In the construction industry, a submission schedule a common tool to using for progress control or monitor in engineer design. Normally the schedule is a thick document with a large amount of submission data. It takes time to analyse. Any idea to make the analysis process faster and provide a precise report to the management.
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Submitted by James Williams on Wed, 2002-02-27 02:14
In my company we use procedural mechanisms to detail and gain approval for changes to programme and design etc.. Nothing more than a set of spreadsheets and flow-charts detailing how to gain approval to introduce a change (ie programme change or design change etc) - its ok, but in no way meets the dynamic needs we currently have.
I would suggest looking up the following two Planning Planet members on the member page:
Keith Pickavance is member ID 1203
Robert Pegg is member ID 1201
They have a huge experience in managing and identifying elements of "Change Control" and I am sure that they may be able to help or offer some guidance. I understand that the above two "Pickavance Consulting" gents are very knowledgable on this issue.
If you have any luck perhaps you could persuade them to have a few pages introduce onto the Planning Planet website for this important subject.
Regards...James
(Note - sometimes the hyperlink on the email that tells you that your forum message has had a response does not work - it is being fixed as we speak - a bug in the discussion forum!!)
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Submitted by Tomas Rivera on Tue, 2002-02-26 08:38
Let’s say we have a project in which we have several change requests per week. How do you usually control change requests, change proposals, change reviews, change approvals, budget changes control, etc.? Do you do it using a specialized software, or a MS Office package, or you just track all this on a sheet of paper or nothing at all?
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6 years 3 monthsHello,I am taking up new
Hello,
I am taking up new Project Management responsibility at my work place. I consider myself a novice in the Project Management domain as I am more of Quality Assurance Manager.
My first task is to identify best software tool which can be used both for Project Management/ Testing at one place. Our group handling between 10 to 15 agile projects (per month) on an average.
Typically this software should provide following:
1. Cloud Based
2. Resource planning/ Utilization
3. Ability to import/ export project artifacts
4. View reports like GANTT charts,
5. Project Status tracking
6. Project Risks tracking
Testing
I really appreciate if any one of you could share your experiences.
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23 years 7 monthsChange Reviews
Most projects have a Change Control/Review board consisting of mostly senior project management team. They would review all Change Requests either at a specified weekly meeting, or through a process of change review forms, circulated to each member for consideration for approval.
If there is no board, elect one, as unless you have a broad range of reviewers who each understand the business to some degree, changes could be processed that may impact on another area of the business. I have come across scenarios where there were not enough qualified reviewers who could properly assess whether a change would impact any or all areas of the business, which ofcourse leads to problems too many to mention.
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24 years 6 monthsRe: Questions Please !
Sam:
If I understand your question correctly, your concern is a basic one. When you have a schedule of many activities, you must have activity codes. These codes relate to diferent aspects or needs of the project.
For example the responsible person or department, trade, design discipline, location, project phase, priority, etc.
Then, you use these codes to create summary reports. For your case you can have a Design report or layout which could have one summary bar for each one of the design disciplines. Depending on your needs you can have in that report columns for percent complete, total float and ES or EF dates. You should also have a baseline schedule to measure performance and probably show a second bar (or thick line) for the baseline (target) schedule for each design discipline.
That way management can look at each discipline and be able to asses the general progress of each discipline and tell whether they are ahead or behind schedule. If they have questions and want to see more detail, you can have a detailed report for each discipline and explain for example which activities in a certain discipline are delayed the most.
I hope this helps.
Tomas Rivera
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24 years 4 monthsRe: Questions Please !
Normally, the managemnt interest in the overall submission progress, the submission performance of each work trades, when the design team can be scaled down and etc.
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24 years 6 monthsRe: Questions Please !
Could you be more specific?
First, let me understand why you have so much information for an engineering design project? How many activities are you talking about?
The main means for analysing a large schedule is by using activity codes. You sort and filter by these codes and other schedule parameters to look at different parts of the schedule.
What are your specific needs?
What do you need to analyze?
What is the information management is interested in?
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24 years 4 monthsRe: Questions Please !
In the construction industry, a submission schedule a common tool to using for progress control or monitor in engineer design. Normally the schedule is a thick document with a large amount of submission data. It takes time to analyse. Any idea to make the analysis process faster and provide a precise report to the management.
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16 years 9 monthsRe: Change Control
Hi there,
Change Control...
In my company we use procedural mechanisms to detail and gain approval for changes to programme and design etc.. Nothing more than a set of spreadsheets and flow-charts detailing how to gain approval to introduce a change (ie programme change or design change etc) - its ok, but in no way meets the dynamic needs we currently have.
I would suggest looking up the following two Planning Planet members on the member page:
Keith Pickavance is member ID 1203
Robert Pegg is member ID 1201
They have a huge experience in managing and identifying elements of "Change Control" and I am sure that they may be able to help or offer some guidance. I understand that the above two "Pickavance Consulting" gents are very knowledgable on this issue.
There web address is http://www.pickavance.co.uk
If you have any luck perhaps you could persuade them to have a few pages introduce onto the Planning Planet website for this important subject.
Regards...James
(Note - sometimes the hyperlink on the email that tells you that your forum message has had a response does not work - it is being fixed as we speak - a bug in the discussion forum!!)
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24 years 6 monthsRe: Questions Please !
OK, How about changes?
How does anyone handle change control?
Let’s say we have a project in which we have several change requests per week. How do you usually control change requests, change proposals, change reviews, change approvals, budget changes control, etc.? Do you do it using a specialized software, or a MS Office package, or you just track all this on a sheet of paper or nothing at all?