I am using Microsoft Excel to make plan, tracking, reporting, monitoring,... the project i am working with.
I want to move away from this Excel and starting with the proper tool for my project, however, i found heap of softwares available and dont know which one to pick up.
Please advice.
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Rakesh TrivediSenior Project Manager| IT CompanyIndore, Mp, India
To Start- Use Microsoft Project plan for Planning/scheduling/Monitoring the project . If your Organization have M/s server available the you can do lot of other stuff by involving your Team members Saving Changes...
I am trying to start with Ms Project now. I have 64 tasks for the whole project and each task consist of 40 different milestones. The whole project will take me around 6 months to complete.
It seems so hard and kind of the mess for me when i try to enter all those tasks and milestones into Ms Project. I am trying this
Rakesh TrivediSenior Project Manager| IT CompanyIndore, Mp, India
There many workarounds but simplest & straight forward is to minimize the tasks or group them under subtasks if possible from the details it seems you have around a Milestone every alternate day considering sequential tasks listings. This seems to be not good from planning perspective, try re-check if you have made every subtasks as milestone and rectify it accordingly by converting it tasks and grouping them.
Also ,Not sure if these tasks are sequential or some are parallel , anyway you may want to group them under one head i.e Task wise so that you can view what you want to view by expanding /collapsing the tasks ..
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Actually, the project is about the construction of small buildings. We have 64 building to be built, and each construction are classified into 40 different milstones. Some of the constructions will be started at the same time, some at different time (depend on the approval).
I have to make a clear report of each task and by milestone. So when i come to microsoft project, i feel more complicate than i was with microsoft excel.
Please advice.
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Dina Garfinkel PMPProject Manager| Horn Group IncNew York, Ny, United States
Hi,
You can also try using LiquidPlanner for organizing your project tasks. You can setup any number of subfolders and organize tasks within them. Items can be dragged & dropped, to re-prioritize. LiquidPlanner also has a full suite of collaboration tools, something you won't get with excel or MS Project.
We use a tool called "Cognizant 2.0". which has quite number of intersting and unique features that are very much required for every tracking every project. More details click here "http://bit.ly/bBk0rg" Saving Changes...
Huw EvansSenior Manager, Projects and Partnerships| Vicinity CentresMount Waverley, Vic, Australia
The first step is to be clear about how you want to see your project reported on. Are you looking to report just at the Building level, or right down to the milestone level? Are you looking to report on % complete, or also report target against actual dates.
Any project tool should be able to store the milestones under the Buildings, and then rollup the status % to the Building level. MS Project achieves this using the "indent" function. You can then use the "Show" dropdown to choose the level you want to rollup or rolldown to.
MS Project will also store the "target" dates by using the Baseline functionality. Save the Baseline under the Tools, Tracking menu. Then you can add the Baseline finish date as a column - or as an element in your gantt chart.
In addition to this one can start of with open source project management tool like redmine which available at http://www.redmine.org from here download and can ask to install and confifugure it. A demo is also available at http://demo.redmine.org/. Hope this helps.
