| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| JB |
ms projectit doesn't actually work does it? ...I have been wrestling with this POS for too much of the day as a client wanted to be able to have their project plans shown to them in MS project. One task taking three days - easy, three subtasks each taking one day now the task apparently will take two days! Assign a task to someone - easy. Assign three tasks to one person and ms cheerfully expects them to work a 24 hour day and schedules everything for the same day. Three day task ending on wednesday - easy. Have it followed by a five day task and ms decides that you have to take the rest of the week off and are not allowed to start the next job until the Monday following. It really is carp isn't it. Anybody have any suggestions for alternative packages - ideally somethin that could export mpps but frankly anything that will do basic project management and print a gantt chart will do. |
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| Fee |
Have a look on here
http://www.osalt.com/ |
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| Fee |
Recommends OpenProj as a Project-a-Likey | ||
| MarkS |
http://www.pcfltd.co.uk/exechome.html
used to be an excellent product. Although it was a tad expensive when I worked on it. Mind, its probably moved on in the last 15 years |
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| JB |
And openproj is 6Mb while ms proj weighs in at several hundred Mb. MS project is uninstalling now. It really isn't worth the disk space it's less useful than pencil and paper! |
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| JB |
... and openproj installs faster, loads faster, runs faster and fixed the problems in the mpp that ms proj created 
Ta for the link. |
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| Fee |
Great stuff
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| orangepippin |
Re: ms project
Well lots of people use it very successfully, perhaps more aimed at large-scale projects though - SAP R/3 implementations etc - although it is useful on small ones too. |
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| MarkS |
I realise that its pointless arguing but MS project is not for big projects.
People may try and use it for big projects (and implementing SAP is not actually such a big deal in project management terms) but it isnt really much cop. |
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| orangepippin |
The question was whether it works or not - answer, yes it does. I've seen it used on almost every project I have been involved with in dozens of organisations over the last 20 years. It's also integrated with SAPs' ASAP project management methodology (by SAP, not by MS). It does require some project management knowledge to use it though. SAP R/3 implementations by their nature are generally business critical, so choice of project management tools (and project manager) are important.
If you don't want to use it because you simply don't like it then I'm sure there are lots of alternatives - but if you have developers charged out at £1K per day, and the FD and MD on your case, my advice would be make sure it's something you can trust. JB: pm me if you like - I think you are missing some fundamentals, in particular it sounds like you are setting fixed constraints on everything. One interesting alternative you might want to look at is Basecamp. |