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Steven Szymczak Project Manager| Rakuten Japan
I'm looking for a scheduling tool that provides a bit more capability than just Gantt charts. Ideally, it would support durations, dependencies, and be able to (re)calculate critical paths, slack/floats, and automatically adjust to changing conditions. For example, if the start/end date or duration of a task changes, all subsequent/dependent tasks would be updated.

So far, I've tried Smartsheet and Asana. Smartsheet provides some of these capabilities, but seems able to calculate critical paths only for dependent tasks and doesn't calculate floats. Asana doesn't really cover any of my needs.

Any other recommendations would be appreciated.
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Senthil S PM III| GGS Information Services Inc Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
I would still vote for MS Project (professional or enterprise version). This is a complete package in my opinion and has support for every step of the entire Project Management life cycle. If cost is an issue, you could go for the Opensource version (Open Office) but you may have compatibility issues working with documents created with products.

I have also heard great things about Primavera but I can't vouch for it as I have not worked on it.
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Salem Al-Khawaja Projects Manger (solar and strorage energy)| PHILADELPHIA SOLAR Amman, Amman, Jordan
MS project and Primavera support your requirements
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Verónica Elizabeth Pozo Ruiz RYLAI Access Control Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
MS Project is a good option for small projects, and you can install S-curves add-in as a complement. Primavera, for other part, is the best choice for large projects or Portfolio management.
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Neil Harkin Training Facilitator| Portach Mona Services Ltd Westhill, Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
Jun 25, 2019 11:02 AM
Replying to Rami Kaibni
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Primavera is your tool, it supports all what you’ve mentioned and more. MS Project is good too but I find primavera better.
Primavera is your tool if you have the budget.

It's fairly expensive on a per seat licence around $3000
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Danya Yavorskiy DNO Ny, United States
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LDJCfs-W6...tstrapBizAdvice
check this video, maybe it can help u)
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Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani Manager, Quality and Continuous Improvement| Hörmann-TNR Industrial Doors Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Primavera
MS-Project
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Justin Fu Senior Systems Engineer| Parsons Bristow, Va, United States
thanks all for info
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
I've had some good success with ProjectLibre
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Roland Vander Straeten CEO| ProjectContexts Inc Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Maybe have a look at ProjectContexts.com as well.
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Vijay Suryavanshi Project Manager - Engineering| RECARO Aircraft Seating Plantation, Fl, United States
Hi Steven,

What you are talking is rolling wave planning.

I do this in MS-Project. But u have to manually feed the revised date into the software system. Also, you have to decide the frequency at which you want to re-plan the project. We do it once a month and save our old project planning file with that month name.

But this is not really recommended always unless major changes happen in your project and the steering committee wants to approve additional hours for major changes. You have to be careful that your baseline doesn't change and updates happen within reasonable the milestone time that were decided.

Otherwise, it becomes a habit to move the schedule from left to right for every small reason.

Hope it helps
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