David HancockEnterprise PM| PSSIDallas, Tx, United States
I am looking for anyone that has experience, and is willing to share, in setting up and using the Power Platform along with Project For Web as the organizations primary PPM platform. I am exploring these tools as I establish my companies PMO. Saving Changes...
Hello David, I am not expert in Power Platform, but actually I am learning to use the tool so if there any posibility to help on what you need, just let me know. That would be helpfull to me to improve my knowledge practicing with real cases. Saving Changes...
I started down that path, at my last job, until the PMO Director changed; the new director was an existing director over a separate business unit that didn't give up his other responsibilities, had no PMO background, and didn't seem to have the bandwidth for the improvements I was pursuing.
Planner is okay for individual task management and some team work, but as you get into medium-sized and cross-functional projects you're going to need more. Project for the Web and Roadmaps have some interesting features, but they are additional licenses, on top of your Office subscription. While I like the desktop version of MS Project, I can't recommend PWA/Project Server. It doesn't seem like it's had significant improvements in years.
I forget what it's called, but Wicresoft came out with a plugin (I think Microsoft owns it now) that was supposed to help with portfolio management. I had it installed and was starting to figure it out when the director, and direction changed. If I recall correctly, you will also need Power BI licenses. I think CDS is free with power platform, but you might need at least one person with a premium Power BI license, and other data services can require additional licensing, as well.
I no longer have access to these tools, so I can't tell you much more than that. Saving Changes...
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