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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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Best Practice - How to introduce a new dashboard that will replace existing dashboards across multiple projects
History: Our PM's have redesigned a dashboard (status report) that replaces our current dashboard format used across all our projects. Problem: I need to figure out how to replace our current dashboard (and supporting Sheet) with minimal effort. We have a Template Library (Control Center users) so both the sheet &…
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Tired of messy image attachments in Smartsheet?
Tired of messy image attachments in Smartsheet? I built a small tool that lets you upload images directly into **cells (not as row attachments)** — making sheets much more structured and easier to review. 🔹 Before: Multiple attachments per row → hard to track 🔹 After: Images mapped to specific columns (clean & organized)…
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🆕 WHAT DO YOUR DASHBOARDS LOOK LIKE?
we need some creativity from others on some of the awesome dashboards people have created. please share some of the best of the best that you have!! hoping to spark some ideas… here is one of my recent ones - thanks in advance
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How are you scaling a PMO in Smartsheet across multiple departments/workspaces?
Hello everyone! We have a great structure within our own department and looking to expand across our firm. I am looking for insights on how you manage cross‑department projects when each department has its own workspace? Interested in workspace structure and reporting best practices. I appreciate the help.
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Multi Year Metric Dashboards
I am looking for some examples and advice on how some of you have set up multiyear metrics. One example of what I am currently working on: I have Behavioral health completing surveys where a lot of the questions are an best to least answer or 1-5 value to choose. They currently track quarterly and by year for metrics. So…
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New Portfolio feature Question
We are using the new EAP feature called Portfolio to manage projects in Smartsheet. I want to try out some of the features in there such as report building across the entire portfolio, but I don't know where to access that feature. Specifically, I'm reading through the PDF documentation and on page 7 is shows that you can…
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Best Practices for EPMO Portfolio Dashboard as a start
Hi, I am setting up an EPMO Dashboard to track portfolio progress on our strategic projects, which use a mix of waterfall, agile, and hybrid methods. Since EPMO (one person) is a new department within a non-profit organization (around 75 staff members), one of our main goals is to create and maintain executive project…
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How to prevent entire Gantt timeline from shifting when updating activity dates? (Float reduction instead)
Hi everyone, I’m looking for some guidance on how Smartsheet handles float and dependencies in a Gantt project schedule. I’ve built a Gantt plan with several tasks linked through dependencies, and I can see the calculated float/slack between activities. When a small delay occurs on one activity, I update the start date to…
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Display Multiple Dates as Milestone in Gannt View / Timeline View in Smartsheet Reports
Hi, I have a query regarding the display of multiple dates from different Columns (5-6 Columns) from a report in Gannt View / Timeline Row within a row. Basically, Gannt of Gannts showing multiple projects in each row showing multiple Dates i.e. Gate Review dates in same row.
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50+ Multi Select Formula + Workflow Suggestions
Hello! We are needing suggestions on how to better setup / populate estimated costs in our current workflow below. We are also open to rebuilding the two sheets and overall workflow as well. Currently we have the workflow setup as follows - Sheet 1 - Column 1 = "Request Set NAME", Column 2 = "Price" *Note - there are…