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I need help in the formula.
Really appreciate your help. I've attached an example (below) for what I'm looking for. I have unique IDs for each project but there are multiple project managers attached to same IDs.
ID Project Project
Manager 1 Manager 2
B250 Chris Julia
B291 Chris Alex
C951 Fiona Julia
Project manager 1 is leading the project and project manager 2 is just assisting.
Now here what I want to do. I want to create a formula that when I choose project manager name lets say "Chris" it should say "Lead" and when I choose project manager "Julia" it should say "Assist".
Keep that in mind that I am already pulling data from a source using the index and small function and its working fine in getting all the other relevant information when I select the project manager example.
when I select Chris it gives me below details.
B250 Project details budget hours Lead
Here the problem is that same ID (B250) is using by another project manager with different hours and working as an assistant so when I select Julia who is an assistant here what I get.
B250 Project details budget hours Lead
(This is the issue because she is not the lead and index function is pulling data from the same row in the dataset).
Hope I have explained it well.
Use Choose to return the correct word:
=CHOOSE(MATCH(F2,INDEX(B:C,MATCH(E2,A:A,0),0),0),"Lead","Assist")
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Most of you certainly use some kind of bugtracker. Maybe internally only, once a customer files a bug via email or phone you add a new ticket by yourself. Sometimes weekly project meetings can be great source of new tickets coming preferably in flavors of excel sheets that the PM on the other side of the table loves to maintain and chase after you.
The more advanced (and transparent) version: Allow the customer to file (and see the progress of) his bugs directly into you bugtracker. Systems like JIRA allow you to use profiles to have certain access rights, etc.
But now the question: The bug raised by a user not necessary translates into 1 bug in a specific module/method/EJB/class. The version of the (your) web application he uses does not translate into the version of the class that is causing the error. How you maintain the internal part of the ticket with all the nasty techy details and the same time the make-the-user-feel-good ticket (need more info, accepted, in progress,..) ? Creating 2 tickets for internal and external ? Link them ?
Any smart recipes to share ?
Separate your bug system from your customer support tracking system, and allow links between them.
Bugs can refer to zero, one or more customer support tickets.
Customer support tickets may refer to zero bugs (e.g. the customer's problem has nothing to do with your software), one bug (in case it's really a problem in your software) or more than one bug (shit happens).
Make queries like:
Which customers are waiting for a solution of bug X
Which customers are waiting on open critical bugs
Which bugs were already encountered by user Y
...
You will also notice that each database will have its own 'speed'. In my situation I have about 4 times more customer support calls than real bugs.
Most sensible way is to have two systems, or an alterantive mechanism for end users to submit bugs (via email). The main problem is not so much that a bug not necessarily translates into one method in a class, but mostly that if you have more than a handfull of users, peopel wont read existing bugs and think further than "button does not work".
If you isolate the real incident system (make it public, but read only), your staff can screen incoming bugs, make sur ethey are reproducable and have repro cases, check against existin bugs and in general have a clear bug once you enter it, and not soe hard to understand mess that may or may not ven make sense and be yet another entry of the same bug entered another 30 times already.
Each comment in JIRA has a "Viewable By" field that allows you to set the Group or Project Role to whom the comment is visible. You could use that to hide the "nasty techy details".
Alternatively you're probably on the right track when you say create two issues and link them. This has the added benefit of hiding your internal workflow from the customer.
One system for both (external) Help Desk and (internal) Issue Tracking. As long as you have complete control over visibility of tickets/issues, and can link between external/internal items, then this is no big deal.
Read more:
http://countersoft.com/downloads/whitepapers/Implementing_an_Issue_Management_Platform.pdf
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I have been thinking about setting up some sort of library for all our internally developed software at my organisation. I would like collect any ideas the good SO folk may have on this topic.
I figure, what is the point in instilling into developers the benefits of writing reusable code, if on the next project the first thing developers do is file -> new due to a lack of knowledge of what code is already out there to be reused.
As an added benefit, I think that just by having a library like this would encourage developers to think more in terms of reusability when writing code
I would like to keep this library as simple as possible, perhaps my only two requirements being:
Search facility
Usable for many types of components: assemblies, web services, etc
I see the basic information required on each asset/component to be:
Name & version
Description / purpose
Dependencies
Would you record any more information?
What would be the best platform for this i.e., wiki, forum, etc?
What would make a software library like this successful vs unsuccessful?
All ideas are greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Found these similar questions after posting:
How do you ensure code is reused correctly?
How do you foster the use of shared components in your organization?
Sounds like there is no central repository of code available at your organization. Depending on what you do this could be because of compatmentalization of the knowledge due to security restrictions, the fact that external vendor code is included in some/all of the solutions, or your company has not yet seen the benefits of getting people to reuse, refactor, and evangelize the benefits of such a repository.
The common attributes of solutions I have seen work at mutiple corporations are a multi pronged approach.
Buy in at some level from the management. Usually it's a CTO/CIO that the idea resonates with and they claim it's a good thing and don't give any money to fund it but they won't sand in your way if they are aware that someone is going to champion the idea before they start soliciting code and consolidating it somewhere.
Some list of projects and the collateral available in english. Seen this on wikis, on sharepoint lists, in text files within a source repository. All of them share the common attribute of some sort of front end search server that allows full text over the description of a solution.
Some common share or repository for the binaries and / or code. Oftentimes a large org has different authentication/authorization methods for many different environments and it might not be practical (or possible logistically) to share a single soure repository - don't get hung up on that aspect - just try to get it to the point that there is a well known share/directory/repository that works for your org.
Always make sure there is someone listed as a contact - no one ever takes code and runs it in production without at lest talking to the previous owner of it - and if you don't have a person they can start asking questions of right away then they might just go ahead and hit file->new.
Unsuccessful attributes I've seen?
N submissions per engineer per time period = lots of crap starts making it's way in
No method of rating / feedback. If there is no means to favorite/rate/give some indicator that allows the cream to rise to the top you don't go back to search it often because you weren't able to benefit from everyone else's slogging through the code that wasn't really very good.
Lack of feedback/email link that contacts the author with questions directly into their email.
lack of ability to categorize organically. Every time there is some super rigid hierarchy or category list that was predetermined everything ends up in "other". If you use tags or similar you can avoid it.
Requirement of some design document to accompany it that is of a rigid format the code isn't accepted - no one can ever agree on the "centralized" format of a design doc and no one ever submits when this is required.
Just my thinking.
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I'm going to give a two hour workshop on a programming topic (NHibernate). It will be a small group, of around five people. The attendees will all have their own laptops.
What would be the best way to structure the workshop so that the attendees get an insight into the topic and preferrably don't fall asleep?
I don't know if you can get a black-n-white answer here, but definitely there's opinions on how to best engage your audience...
You will probably know your audience much better than I do, so you're in a better place to make this determination. I'll assume your attendees are going to be developers, due to the topic you'll be presenting.
And here's my personal opinion: "what we learn to do, we learn by doing", right? So, go with some hands-on exercise. For instance, look at the NerdDinner tutorial online to see how you can have them 'build' something while exploring the features of NHibernate you wish to expose them to.
I also reccomend making sure one of the exercises is more similar to a 'maintainance' task instead of a 'create from scratch' example since people will eventually spend more time in the former rather than the latter mode. SO perhaps have an exercise or two for them to do from scratch, and then have a prepared 'code base' they'll have to modify.
HTH
Add a few (or just one!) hands-on lab(s) into the mix. You could burn it on CD or whatever, hand it out at the start and they can all load it up and play along and run it. It just means you need to put some effort in, in terms of creating the template project and to ensure they just have to fill in a few things/gaps here and there, and it will run without a problem.
During your presentation you will then have 'Hands-on lab intervals'. Where you go through some of the steps and let the candidates fill in some of the pieces of the puzzle.
That way, you can let them fill in the appropriate gaps that you think are necessary in order to "get" it. And at the same time, it ensures the attendees won't fall asleep, as they actually actively participate.
I think the most important thing to keep in mind is that your attendees are going to have different learning styles. What I would do is create a slide-show or outline that gives the skeleton of the topics you want to cover. Then create the code examples you want to work from based off of the topics. Once that is done create your solution code files to all of the examples you made. Ideally, you will want to give all of the attendees a copy of the material when they show up. This way they have something to following along with and if they get ahead or fall behind they have the material necessary to still learn. Finally, make sure you practice your presentation. When you practice it you won't want it to take the full 2 hours because you will want to leave time for questions. It also could help if you mark on your outline how long it should take you to get to each major point. That way you know if you are staying on pace or not.
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So Amazon has lots of different APIs for different things, and it's hard to find the one I'm looking for.
I have a client that sells things and checks Amazon's lowest price to know where to price their things (slightly under the lowest thing there). They want functionality integrated into their inventory system that would automatically find the product's lowest price on Amazon and display that. I was wondering which AWS service is best suited to this task.
I see the Product Advertising API, and that looks like the closest thing right now. Is that so?
I don't really want to rely on a scraper when Amazon provides a programmatic interface to this information somewhere, which I know they do because many other products have this. Some say that they can just download a dump of Amazon's products and use that locally -- I'm open to that option too if anyone can point me in its direction.
Yes, the technically appropriate API is the Product Advertising API, using the ItemLookup/ItemSearch operations or the Seller* operations.
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html
I would also advise you to check the licensing agreement for this API, notably clause 4 (i).
You can use the Amazon Marketplace Web Service (api, description)
This service can group all of the available offers into ‘buckets’ and shows the lowest price from each bucket bucket.
Each bucket has a unique combination of:
Sub-Condition (New, Like New, Very Good, Good, Acceptable)
FulfillmentChannel (FBA or Merchant-Fulfilled)
ShipsDomestically (True, False, Unknown)
ShippingTime (0-2 days, 3-7 days, 8-13 days, 14 or more days)
SellerPositiveFeedbackRating (98-100%, 95-97%, 90-94%, 80-89%,
70-79%, Less than 70%, Just launched)
Someone made a really cool demo of the API here
We cannot get the entire amazon products using API.They had made certain restrictions to the usage of API such that it would be more relevant to advertising use case only.
I wrote that small python module to achieve such a task: https://github.com/iMilnb/awstools/blob/master/mods/awsprice.py
Basically, it fetches the prices from Amazon's website and convert them to a nice and parsable python dict.
I wrote two example functions that show how to use the resulting dict to dump an instance price on various terms along with a CSV converter.
There is a reply to a similar question which lists all the .js files containing the prices, which are barely JSON files (with only a callback(...); statement to remove).
Here is an exemple for Linux On Demand prices : http://aws-assets-pricing-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/pricing/ec2/linux-od.js
(Get the full list directly on that reply)
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Joel often talks about using MS Excel for lightweight project management, but I'm curious about actual implementations of this idea. I've seen some templates that seem to clone MS Project via macros, which would be overkill for a lightweight project. Anyone have any useful templates?
try
feature task estimated hours actual hours current %
---------- ---------- --------------- ------------ ---------
if estimated hours times current % is greater than actual hours, you are behind schedule
update the actual hours and current % on a daily basis
see also joel's old excel template
Maybe a bit off-topic, but you might want to consider testing Google Docs. There is a Gantt chart widget provided by Viewpath in the "Insert->Widget..." menu option.
You have some pretty advance template with Pipetalk Scheduler
alt text http://ep.yimg.com/ip/I/pipetalk_2055_216386
However, since it seems to be a little too much, I just transfered that to the worst UI thread ;)
Edward Tufte - aka "the man" when it comes to data representation has done a lot of work on Gantt charts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart) has some good information on this topic, but basically it boils down to using Excel as a Gantt chart creator, the advantage being that it's simple and won't get in your way much:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000076
It's not excel, but I saw scrumy and liked it's demo. For a small project recently, I just generated a project plan using 'Cross Functional Flowchart' under Business Process with some flow/process stuff in Visio.
You could consider using a Sprint Backlog. You estimate the time for every tasks of your project and your update the estimated remaining time every day or so. Then you have a burndown chart that shows the remaining effort to complete the project.
If your project is too large for a daily tracking, you could either do the tracking every week, or manage a product backlog of the things to be done in your project as a coarse-grained level of planning and then choose the most prioritized one for the finer-grained planning level.
You might want to look at Scrum(1) or any other agile methods for lightweight development methods for further details.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(development)
If you like using spreadsheets and not getting involved with too many fancy tools, have a look at The One Page Project Manager - it's exactly as described, a nice, lightweight way to keep track of all your important project info on a single worksheet.
Much simpler: some Gantt graph in Excel ,as illustrated here.
The columns I use are
1) Task Name
2) Budget Hours
3) Total Hours
4) Remaining Hours
The Key is column (4). Rather than getting the person to estimate a percent complete; get them to re-estimate from this point forward. Its a subtle change but the mindset is much different. Otherwise you almost always end up stuck at 90% complete.
There are a lot of useful template in this page. Also, you can read more in our project management software blog.
Hope it helps :)
I use EasyProjectPlan which is an Excel Project Plan that syncs with Outlook and MSProject.
www.EasyProjectPlan.com
I use the Outlook and Calendar sync features to distribute and collect task information to my team members.
I distribute the EPP Excel file to all team members either by email or I post it in a shared folder.
My team members can edit the EPP excel file and send the changes back to me.
Most of the companies I work for have no PM task management system so EPP allows me to walk onto any project and immediately distribute and collect task information to all team members. Considering that most companies use Excel and Outlook, there is nothing to install on any computer.
In my experience, team members prefer to view task information in Excel and Outlook.