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Status updates, schedules and plans that stay honest
Practical posts for project managers. Specific steps, real formulas, no filler.
Jira
How to export Jira issues to Excel with assignee email addresses and due dates
Why Jira's CSV export has no assignee emails, and three ways to get them: Jira Cloud for Sheets, an admin user export joined by account ID, or asking.
· 7 min read
Scheduling
When to re-baseline a project schedule (and how to do it without hiding the slip)
Why only critical-path slips justify a new baseline, the reasons that don't, and how to re-baseline in Project or Excel without erasing history.
· 6 min read
Status updates
How to ask your team for a status update (and get an answer you can use)
Why “any updates?” fails, the one question that works, and copy-paste templates for email, reminders and chat.
· 7 min read
Microsoft Project
How to get task owners’ email addresses out of Microsoft Project
Why the Excel export drops email addresses, where Project keeps them, and three ways to get names and emails out together.
· 6 min read
Scheduling
Schedule slip in days: how to report baseline vs current dates (with Excel formulas)
What slip actually measures, the Excel formulas for calendar and working days, and the three numbers a status report needs.
· 6 min read