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To deal with these unpleasant problems, Tom and Alison set a meeting with Bob and decide to visit the Atlassian Marketplace looking for some add-on for Jira I can do for them.
Et voila! Their focus falls on a plugin called Project Monitor.
Immediately Tom and Alison understand that this plugin will allow them to monitor the status of projects with just a glance and it will be a valuable aid for their needs of Project Management. They are also excited that Project Monitor will allow them to get two complementary gadgets (Project Monitor-Delivery Tracking and Project Monitor- Effort Tracking), perfect to keep tabs on the key aspects, easy to use and always available on their Dashboards. So why not try Project Monitor?
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The two access their Dashboard, and, clicking the appropriate button, add the two gadgets!
Tom believes to be more interested in the Project Monitor- Effort Tracking and so configures it ad hoc to his needs; select the "ProgettoV" project and he lets start the gadget.
Red dot !!! Alarm for Tom!
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Instead, Alison, by handling directly with the customer, has to guarantee the delivery of the project in commercially predetermined times and then verify that operationally is the same. She can't afford to deliver late. The MarketThink project in particular is related to a very important customer for the company and therefore she can't disappoint him. For this reason she is sure that the gadget Project Monitor- Delivery Tracking is perfect for her. So she began to configure it.
Alison is interested in a project and then select this option, but it could be possible to select a precise Sprint (if she worked according to the Agile methodology and then wanted to monitor the progress into the Sprint) or a filter that returns only a specific pool of activities that affect her. If the project had versions Alison may also select the single version. But in this case Alison select the entire project.
At this point, after selecting the MarketThink project, defines the commercial start/end dates (6/10 / 2016- 28/02/2017) within which the project must be completed.
And here's what the gadget returns as a result of the parameters defined by Alison. What does it mean?
The Estimated bar defines the percentage of project's completion to today in relation to the estimates and commercially defined dates .
The Actual bar instead gives you a real progress indication of the project in percentage terms; this allows you to make a comparison between the current state of progress and planned work. Then ypu could be able to do reasoning on how you are progressing then how you should do.
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