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Welcome to the Project Management Office (PMO) Community!
This is a space for Smartsheet users that work in Project Management Office (PMO) functions to connect, share ideas, challenges, best practices and how you are using Smartsheet to transform your specific use case. Our Smartsheet team will be sharing helpful resources, upcoming industry events, discussion questions, and…
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PM Training
I am in search for Project Management training for the financial sector. I started with google search and decided, what better place to ask than the project managers using Smartsheet. Is there any initial training, certifications that you would recommend? Thanks!
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Project Intake management
There could be a very basic and simple answer to this, or a complicated one-I hope its simple!😀 We have around 50-100 projects at any given time and we need to track and report on various deliverables. I have set up Intake Form- Intake sheet-Portfolio tracker, as well as project plan for each project. The Intake form is…
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MS Project vs Smartsheet connectivity
I have a project that is run in MS Project (Desktop) on clients SharePoint, which we also want to have in our Smartsheet account so that we can track the progress and allocated resources, without duplicating efforts on updating both. I have found this can be done via Data Shuttle (which supports desktop version of MS)…
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Project Cutover Planning
I have been working to transition my Excel based cutover plan to Smartsheet. I have read the posts about the challenges with Date and Time and having the ability to calculate duration with these challenges. Has anyone identified a truly viable option to track tasks at the minute, hour and day level for both child and…
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How have you secured buy-in from other departments (business, sales, etc) to use Smartsheet?
Hello! Any tips and tricks to encourage the other departments (outside of Project Management/PPM) to use Smartsheet?
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Program Management within PMO structure
I need to set up a Program (Multiple projects). What is the best way to do this within my portfolio? Set up each project in the program as a separate projects? add these projects as separate sections within one project plan? Ultimate goal is the have a status for the program and have the program report as a status in the…
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Creating a KPI Metric for a specific Project dashboard then up in the Portfolio Dashboard
I'm trying to create a KPI for Client attended meetings. We have 32 weekly meetings and a sheet with a Yes or No for Client attendance. I created a sheet but want to add a widget in the Project Dashboard then take that up into the Portfolio Dashboard. I would like both to be a colored percentage pie chart for Yes and No on…
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Best Practices for Scalable Sheet Templates in Exec-Level Project Portfolio Reporting
Hi Community, I'm working on building Smartsheet templates that will support executive-level reporting across our project portfolio, and I’d love to hear your best practices and lessons learned. Specifically, I’m trying to design templates that are scalable, easy to maintain, and dashboard-friendly. Here are a few…
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Use Cases for Smartsheet Bridge or AWM
Hi Everyone, I've been working to bring my PMO into Smartsheet for our documentation over the past 18 months. My team has made a lot of progress with using sheets to track assignments, out of office time, and the progress of change orders, but we're starting to run into some roadblocks when it comes to scaling our…
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Scope Of Work
i see Scope of work downloads for free with trial. i am pro level paid account and cannot find the scope of work templates