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\begin{table}[htbp]
    \caption{Tool/technique for scope definition}
    %\begin{adjustbox}{width=1\textwidth}
        \label{tab:fir}
        \centering
        \begin{adjustbox}{width=15cm, height=5.0cm}
        \begin{tabular}{|p{3.5cm}|p{2cm}|p{2.5cm}|p{2cm}|p{2cm}|p{2.5cm}|p{.5cm}|}
            \hline
            \multirow{2}{*}{\textbf{Techniques/tools}} & \multicolumn{6}{>{\centering}p{1\textwidth}}{\textbf{Combination of different approaches used as monitoring and controlling \newline methods in Software Project management}}\\  \cline{2-7}
            &Monitoring & Quantification & Controlling & Visualizing&Completeness & Ref \\

        \hline
        Earn Value Management and Gantt Chart & $1$ & $0$ & $1$&$1$ & $0$ & \cite{sillitti2011agile} \\
        \hline 
    Earn Value Management and statistical Methods & $1$ & $0$ & $1$ & $0$& $0$ & \cite{levin2009fundamentals} \\
        \hline 
    Earn Value Management and Kanban & $1$ & $0$ & $0$ &$1$ & $0$ & \cite{corral2011evolution}\\
        \hline 
        Value Stream Mapping and Kanban & $1$ & $0$ & $0$ &$1$  &$0$ & \cite{hans2013work}\\
        \hline
        Scrum and Kanban & $1$ & $0$ & $0$ &$1$ & $0$ & \cite{wnuk2009feature}  \\

        \hline 
    Control charts & $1$ & $0$ & $1$ &$1$ & $0$ & \cite{sanghera2008fundamentals} \\
        \hline 
    PRINCE 2 and Balance Scored Method& $1$ & $0$ & $0$ &$0$ & $0$ & \cite{sanghera2008fundamentals}  \\
        \hline 
        Cumulative Flow Diagram with some metrics&$1$ & $0$ & $1$&$1$ & $0$ & \cite{sanghera2008fundamentals} \\
        \hline 
    Earn Value Management and critical path method & $1$ & $1$ & $1$ &$1$ & $0$ & \cite{sliger2008software}  \\


        \hline 
    EVM and Use Case Point& $1$ & $0$&  $1$& $1$& $0$ & \cite{wnuk2008visualization}  \\

        \hline 
    \end{tabular}
\end{adjustbox}
\end{table}

Table line is missing at the top right corner, plzzz help

Mico
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avais
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  • Welcome to TeX.SE!. Please provide a minimal working example that reproduces your problem. –  Nov 18 '18 at 09:10
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    To fix the issue mentioned in the title of your posting, all you'll have to do is change \multicolumn{6}{>{\centering}p{1\textwidth}}{...} to \multicolumn{6}{>{\centering}p{1\textwidth}|}{...}. However, as I set forth in my answer, you should re-evaluate your entire approach to designing the table, say, with the help of a tabularx environment. – Mico Nov 18 '18 at 09:33

2 Answers2

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Don't use adjustbox to make tabular material fit inside the textblock, unless you really wish to risk making the font size so small as to make the material unreadable without a magnifying glass. Instead, load the tabularx environment, set its width to \textwidth and allow line breaks in the five header cells.

For the following screenshot, I've set the variable \textwidth to 15cm as that's the value you use in your code for the width of the adjustbox.

enter image description here

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[textwidth=15cm]{geometry} 
\usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e}
\newcolumntype{C}{>{\Centering\arraybackslash\hspace{0pt}}X}
\usepackage[skip=0.333\baselineskip]{caption} % optional

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\setlength\tabcolsep{4pt}       % default: 6pt
\setlength\extrarowheight{2pt}  % for a more open "look"

\caption{Tool/technique for scope definition}
\label{tab:fir}

\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{| >{\RaggedRight}p{4cm} | *{5}{C|} c |}
\hline
    Techniques\slash tools & 
    \multicolumn{5}{>{\hsize=\dimexpr5\hsize+8\tabcolsep\relax}C|}%
    {Combination of different approaches used as monitoring 
     and controlling methods in Software Project management} & Ref. \\  
    \cline{2-6}
    & Monitoring  & Quantification & Controlling 
    & Visualizing & Completeness   & \\
    \hline
    Earn Value Management and Gantt Chart 
      & $1$ & $0$ & $1$&$1$ & $0$ & \cite{sillitti2011agile} \\
    \hline 
    Earn Value Management and statistical Methods 
      & $1$ & $0$ & $1$ & $0$& $0$ & \cite{levin2009fundamentals} \\
    \hline 
    Earn Value Management and Kanban 
      & $1$ & $0$ & $0$ &$1$ & $0$ & \cite{corral2011evolution}\\
    \hline 
    Value Stream Mapping and Kanban 
      & $1$ & $0$ & $0$ &$1$  &$0$ 
      & \cite{hans2013work}\\
    \hline
    Scrum and Kanban 
      & $1$ & $0$ & $0$ &$1$ & $0$ 
      & \cite{wnuk2009feature}  \\
    \hline 
    Control charts 
      & $1$ & $0$ & $1$ &$1$ & $0$ 
      & \cite{sanghera2008fundamentals} \\
    \hline 
    PRINCE 2 and Balance Scored Method
      & $1$ & $0$ & $0$ &$0$ & $0$ 
      & \cite{sanghera2008fundamentals}  \\
    \hline 
    Cumulative Flow Diagram with some metrics
      &$1$ & $0$ & $1$ & $1$ & $0$ 
      & \cite{sanghera2008fundamentals} \\
    \hline 
    Earn Value Management and critical path method 
      & $1$ & $1$ & $1$ &$1$ & $0$ 
      & \cite{sliger2008software}  \\
    \hline 
    EVM and Use Case Point
      & $1$ & $0$ & $1$& $1$ & $0$ 
      & \cite{wnuk2008visualization}  \\
    \hline 
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Mico
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  • how can i write the headings of 5 multi column fully in the above code? e g. Monitoring, Quantification, controlling, visualizing, completeness . – avais Nov 18 '18 at 09:41
  • @avais - please clarify what you mean by writing the 5 headers "fully". Do you mean "on a single line"? – Mico Nov 18 '18 at 09:44
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Using

\multicolumn{6}{p{13.5cm}|}{\centering\textbf{Combination of different approaches used as monitoring and controlling methods in Software Project management}}

would fix the error and add the missing vertical line:

enter image description here

However, the resulting table looks distorted, due to the use of adjustbox. To make the table fit onto the page, I'd suggest the usage of tabularx. In order to save space, you could rotate the table column headings as follows. I have also shortened the text in the multirow, as I would try to add the information into the caption of the table. Additionally, I have removed vertical lines and replaced horizontal lines by booktabs' rules:

enter image description here

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}

\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{array}

\newcolumntype{R}[2]{%
    >{\adjustbox{angle=#1,lap=\width-(#2)}\bgroup}%
    l%
    <{\egroup}%
}
\newcommand*\rot{\multicolumn{1}{R{45}{1em}}}

\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X} 


\begin{document}

\begin{table}[htbp]
    \caption{Tool/technique for scope definition}

        \label{tab:fir}
        \centering
     \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{l*6{Y}}
        \toprule
        \multirow{2}{*}{\textbf{Techniques/tools}} & \multicolumn{6}{c}{\textbf{Approaches}}
            \\  \cmidrule{2-7}
            &\rot{Monitoring}  & \rot{Quantification} & \rot{Controlling} & \rot{Visualizing} & \rot{Completeness} & \rot{Ref} \\

        \midrule
        Earn Value Management and Gantt Chart & 1 & 0 & 1&1 & 0 & \cite{sillitti2011agile} \\

    Earn Value Management and statistical Methods & 1 & 0 & 1 & 0& 0 & \cite{levin2009fundamentals} \\

    Earn Value Management and Kanban & 1 & 0 & 0 &1 & 0 & \cite{corral2011evolution}\\

        Value Stream Mapping and Kanban & 1 & 0 & 0 &1  &0 & \cite{hans2013work}\\

        Scrum and Kanban & 1 & 0 & 0 &1 & 0 & \cite{wnuk2009feature}  \\


    Control charts & 1 & 0 & 1 &1 & 0 & \cite{sanghera2008fundamentals} \\

    PRINCE 2 and Balance Scored Method& 1 & 0 & 0 &0 & 0 & \cite{sanghera2008fundamentals}  \\

        Cumulative Flow Diagram with some metrics&1 & 0 & 1&1 & 0 & \cite{sanghera2008fundamentals} \\

    Earn Value Management and critical path method & 1 & 1 & 1 &1 & 0 & \cite{sliger2008software}  \\



    EVM and Use Case Point& 1 & 0&  1& 1& 0 & \cite{wnuk2008visualization}  \\

        \bottomrule 
    \end{tabularx}

\end{table}

\end{document}

The code for the rotated table headers is borrowed from here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/32690/134144

leandriis
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  • +1 for the second solution. Since it looks like you don't want to allow line breaks in the first column, you may want to assign the l column type to it, and switch to using a centered version of the X column type for the 6 data columns. – Mico Nov 18 '18 at 09:54
  • A minor suggestion: Maybe replace \multicolumn{6}{p{4.5cm+10\tabcolsep}}{\centering\textbf{Approaches}} with \multicolumn{6}{c}{\textbf{Approaches}}? – Mico Nov 18 '18 at 10:04
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    @Mico: Thanks a lot for your suggestions, that significantly simplify the code. I have incorporated them into my answer. – leandriis Nov 18 '18 at 10:22
  • Don't forget to drop the surplus \centering instruction. :-) – Mico Nov 18 '18 at 10:35