Has anyone added the critical chain software by Prochain to their MS projects? If so, what were the positives and negatives to the software? Thanks! Saving Changes...
Don KimPROJECT-TO-PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT EXPERT| Seeking opportunitiesSacramento, CA, United States
I have heard of it, but have not ever used it. My feeling is that unless you're going to do hardcore CCPM, you can bypass purchasing that expensive add on and use resource management and leveling effectively to see how it effects your critical path analysis and re-shuffle and adjust your tasks accordingly.
In other words, those "chain" of tasks that drive the project end date take into account the limited resource availability that you have. This is more representative of the kinds of project constraints we work under and those constraints are typically resource ones.
But if you have a very large project with multiple dependencies and resources, then something like Prochain will automate much of this for you, by extracting the Critical Chain Path from your MS Project schedule.
But then if your projects are this large with multiple work streams, resources from within and outside your organization, and long term planning horizons, then it might be better to go with a enterprise level PPM tool many of which are out there and allow you to do demand capacity planning, which is really a organizational form of Critical Chain.
