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Maya Kalach Head of PMO, IT| Middle East Airlines Beirut, Lebanon

I have expertise in MS Project and looking into assessing Primavera as a tool.
What are the differences in terms of user friendliness, flexibility, reporting, resource management and mapping, and other features?

Posted: Aug 19, 2019 5:37 AM

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James Shields IS Director - Portfolio Solutions| City and County of San Francisco, SFPD San Francisco, Ca, United States

Absent of any experience I have on Primavera, there are comparisons on the Internet:

https://www.slideshare.net/rigenetabamo/pr...roject-49152594
https://www.projectcubicle.com/microsoft-project-vs-primavera/
… and many more.

If others weigh in on differences from experience in this forum, it would be interesting to see how that compares with what others outside of this forum are saying about the two. Presumably they would be similar(?).

Posted: Aug 19, 2019 12:14 PM

Maya Kalach Head of PMO, IT| Middle East Airlines Beirut, Lebanon

Thank you very much James.

Posted: Aug 23, 2019 6:11 AM

Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada

Primavera is a full-featured, complex tool that is well suited for projects with a project office. It is not for the faint of heart as it is quite involved. Be prepared for Oracle's usually higher pricing.

Posted: Aug 23, 2019 8:47 AM

Maya Kalach Head of PMO, IT| Middle East Airlines Beirut, Lebanon

Thanks Stephane. Seems its sophistication lies mostly in the resource management feature, better suits construction or similar industries.

Posted: Aug 23, 2019 9:47 AM

Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada

We used it twenty years ago to manage a $250M CAD software development project.

Posted: Aug 23, 2019 9:58 AM

Maya Kalach Head of PMO, IT| Middle East Airlines Beirut, Lebanon

Interesting.

Posted: Aug 23, 2019 10:09 AM

Keith Novak Tukwila, Wa, United States

Maya,

Part of the sophistication is the ability to handle strings of subtasks. Our schedules which drive a large manufacturing system often include thousands of design release tasks and each task has several sub-tasks, such as reviews by SMEs and gatekeepers. Using P6, a skilled user populates the complete schedule by assigning a pre-defined template of detail level events for each different type of design release task scheduled in the SOW.

Posted: Aug 23, 2019 1:01 PM

Maya Kalach Head of PMO, IT| Middle East Airlines Beirut, Lebanon

Thank you for sharing your experience Keith

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Oct 02, 2019 11:32 AM

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Number of activities handled are lesser in MSP compared to Primavera, Both are data entry driven no real time data integration mostly.

Posted: Aug 23, 2019 3:12 PM

Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada

I only have seen P6 used in construction, it so flexible. You can make any report you need.

Posted: Aug 24, 2019 7:26 AM

Maya Kalach Head of PMO, IT| Middle East Airlines Beirut, Lebanon

Thanks Vincent for sharing..

Posted: Aug 24, 2019 9:59 AM

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