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Is there anyone here who has experience with Udemy[^]?
It has a lot of courses on a lot of subjects, including IT, and prices ranging from free to €327 ( ).
Is it worth it? Should I get an account and check out some (free) courses?
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Our PM has (t)asked me the following:
He wants a weekly status report email from everyone every Friday. This will include a Word document per person on work that they've accomplished every week. He would like to automate a summary report as well that shows who sent him what and when (and who didn't). We're currently doing it manually. Save attachment per person and update Excel status list.
Does anyone know of a tool that will help automate that? I thought about creating a custom email, task, or journal form in Outlook that will collect that info, but I'm not very familiar with Outlook's capabilities.
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:
Does anyone know of a tool that will help automate that?
A hammer.
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I never finish anyth
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I'm surprised your PM didn't ask for the cover sheet on your TPS report. 
On a serious note, you can try some tools like "TaskCoach" or "ToDoList" that might help. I know that "ToDoList" can send an email with information you select. I would think Outlook would have something for this.
Makes me wonder what the PM is really doing with all of those reports. I had to do this at one company and I pretty much made up items and no one ever noticed. 
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Outlook has a built-in Task tool. The problem is, he needs to capture the summary weekly. Never used Journal, so I wasn't sure what its capabilities are.
Erik Burd wrote: Makes me wonder what the PM is really doing with all of those reports.
He reads them actually.
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I'm surprised - most PMs just want paperwork for the sake of paperwork.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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He doesn't want each person to create a Project file. We already track high level tasks using that.
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target process
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: Does anyone know of a tool
Is it possible that your PM is a tool? I don't know...
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The PM should be reading the elephanting progress reports and updating whatever PM tool they are using ... or getting the team to update the tool directly - result... automated reporting.
What is the point of getting a team to produce progress reports if you're not going to actually read them?
An earlier poster has it right ... your PM is a tool (that's a derogatory term in US/UK if you weren't aware)
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This[^] and a good forensics lab?
Marc
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If there is no thought of the day, does that mean the day isn't?
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I think so? 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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No, it means I've had a heck of a day, and haven't been around much.
About the only thing that hasn't happened is Dij bringing in a live rat...last week he came in with two rats in his mouth - one live, one dead. You have this joy to look forward to... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There aren't any rats where I live 
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That's what I used to think!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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You've moved to the moon?
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Yes, but this day isn't over yet...
I never finish anyth
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Did he at least bring you a biscuit[^] with that?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No, but he was staring at the cupboard where we keep the ketchup, so it's possible he's part dwarf...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hadn't really thought about it.
New version: WinHeist Version When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page. Unknown
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I was taught that it would be thought and it ought to be thought as thought-less day
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