New to Mac and need advice on a MS Project alternative.

Debby Heid Account Manager| 1010data Falls Creek, Pa, United States

I am looking for an alternative to MS Project. I used about 20% of the functions in MS Project and need to find a MAC Project Plan software. I am looking for something that has task and subtasks, gantt charts, resource names, critical path, milestones and dependencies. Would appreciate your input as I am only 7 days into using a MAC and haven't a clue what to use.

Posted: Jun 3, 2011 4:18 PM

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Daniel Elwell Director of Corporate Growth and Strategy| iCES Corporation Silver Spring, Md, United States

I use Merlin (http://www.projectwizards.net/en/merlin/) primarily. I also use Omniplan (http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniplan/). Both a pretty good a the core PM functionality, and both can read Microsoft Project files pretty easily. I think both have trial version available, so I would pick one and try it out.

Posted: Jun 6, 2011 2:50 PM

Debby Heid Account Manager| 1010data Falls Creek, Pa, United States

Thank you so much for the advice, I will take a look at both. Do you prefer one over the other?

Posted: Jun 6, 2011 9:23 PM

Mark Mullaly President| Interthink Consulting Incorporated Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Debby: There are lots of software packages out there for the Mac. Depending upon your requirements, you may want to consider using an online planner as well, particularly if you need to share plans and information with team members, sponsors and clients. We'll posting information and reviews in the new 'Organizational Project Management' department in the coming weeks and months.

Another tool to look at is SharedPlan, which is available for both the Mac and Windows environments. I have only seen cursory information so far, so I can't go so far as to recommend it, but it seems worth a look.

Good luck!
Mark

Posted: Jun 7, 2011 2:48 PM

Robert Steele AtTask Inc. Lehi, Ut, United States

I use a web-based project management tool called AtTask. It recently won the CODiE award for "Best Project Management Solution" for the third year in a row. It has the features you mentioned and is very user friendly. If you're looking for something good for the Mac, then you'll be pleased to know that Apple themselves have turned to AtTask. Check it out here: http://www.attask.com/topics/work-management

Posted: Jun 8, 2011 4:23 PM

Debby Heid Account Manager| 1010data Falls Creek, Pa, United States

Thank you Robert, Mark and Daniel. I am going to take a look at them this weekend. I appreciate you taking the time to help me.

Posted: Jun 8, 2011 6:10 PM

Samuel Amubieya Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Hi,don't go far, primavera P3 project planner is what you need.This will do justice to all your need.
Thanks.

Posted: Jun 9, 2011 5:19 AM

Lucian Ioan Craiova, Romania

RationalPlan is a Microsoft Project alternative that works on Windows, Mac and Linux at just a fraction of the cost:
http://www.theprojectalternative.com/

Posted: Dec 19, 2011 5:13 AM

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