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Software for Gantt charts & resource allocation

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Angie Cervantes Tx, United States
I am having trouble with finding a software that I can create a Gantt chart & assign to employees. I then wanted to see a consolidated form for resource allocation. To visualize in any bottlenecks in a department that will delay a job hitting the due date.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Angie -

There are lots of tools which can do this - MS Project is one of the more popular ones, but by no means the only one. However, you will need to provide some idea of the specific requirements you have and the budget you have to get focused suggestions from the community.

Kiron
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1 reply by Peter Rapin
May 04, 2021 9:29 AM
Peter Rapin
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I find that MS Project will do most of the required features, is relatively inexpensive and readily available to most people who you may wish to share or collaborate with. I would start there and consider more sophisticated project management software as the need becomes apparent. I would caution against "over-buying" as you may end up using only a fraction of the program's capabilities
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Ruediger Strohmeier Deisenhofen, Germany
Hi Angie,
some criterion I can think of are
* size of the project (MS Planner or even SharePoint lists can do for smaller projects)
* do you need advanced features like automatic resource reconciliation?
* what is the confidentiality level that you need to meet? Would a cloud-based solution be possible even if hosted abroad?

If it is really only creating Gantt charts, assigning tasks to single or multiple project stakeholders, managing basic (end-start) dependencies AND you have an Office 365 subscription, I would simply go with Task lists in SharePoint online.
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Peter Rapin Subject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent Consultant Ontario, Canada
Mar 11, 2021 2:56 PM
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Angie -

There are lots of tools which can do this - MS Project is one of the more popular ones, but by no means the only one. However, you will need to provide some idea of the specific requirements you have and the budget you have to get focused suggestions from the community.

Kiron
I find that MS Project will do most of the required features, is relatively inexpensive and readily available to most people who you may wish to share or collaborate with. I would start there and consider more sophisticated project management software as the need becomes apparent. I would caution against "over-buying" as you may end up using only a fraction of the program's capabilities
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Bob Cunningham West Boylston, Ma, United States
I use MS Project for maintaining project schedules and resourcing, but then I take the resource utilization data across all projects and put them in excel so I can detail & graph the overall resource utilization and available capacity across the company.
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Rohit K A Hyderabad, India
.Hi, I have been using Click-Up off late and find it a balanced project management software at an affordable price. You might want to explore it.

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