A cheatsheet with 8 useful strategies for (vertically) breaking down user stories for your #Agile/#Scrum project.

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How Product Management Must Change to Enable the Agile Enterprise

Written back in 2009 and still applies to a lot of organizations

How Product Management Must Change to Enable the Agile Enterprise

When development teams adopt agile, product management is often caught off guard by the amount of work added to their already overflowing plate. Agile calls for new skills, and traditional staffing models do not typically accommodate the new...

Cash Flow Report in MS Project

MS Project is a good tool for managing project costs but it can be a bit tricky if you are trying to pull information from it for reporting.

 

For the projects I manage, each task has a cost category: Deferred and Expense. This is a custom column created to reflect Capex vs. Opex costs for the project.

 

I was trying to find a way to pull a Cash Flow (Cost month-by-month) report for the two Cost Categories which showed my total costs on the project like so:

Cost Category	January	February	March	April	May	June	July
Deferred SW	xx.xx	xx.xx	xx.xx	xx.xx	xx.xx	xx.xx	xx.xx
Expense	xx.xx	xx.xx	xx.xx	xx.xx	xx.xx	xx.xx	xx.xx

 

 

At first I was trying to play around with Views that showed me the information in the format I wanted and then export it in Excel. This obviously didn’t work. Getting project to filter by the Cost Category column wasn’t easy and the Summary Totals reflected a sum of the two categories.

 

That’s when I came across the Visual Reports feature of Project.

This report allowed me to choose the extra column I wanted (Cost Category) and create a pivot table in Excel which I could modify as needed.

 

 

Got exactly what I was looking for.