Looking for evaluations/comparisons of software to plan, schedule, track and report resources, tasks, budget. Needs to do baseline and actual for costs and hours. Will be rolled out to IS staff of approx. 100. Saving Changes...
Ravi ChitturiGlobal Program Manager & Senior Project Manager| JPMorgan Chase Bank via TEKsystemsColumbus, Oh, United States
Used to use MS Project 98 but now migrated to TeamPlay. Primavera TeamPlay/TeamPlayer works good for your requirements. We implemented Enterprise wide and are we are doing ok with all the project management tools, methodology tools and time management tools. Saving Changes...
Our company is merging with another in the next few months. Neither company has an across-the-board project methodology/tool. Basically, our new company will have a variety of contracts -- from 3-6 month application development projects to multi-year per-seat contracts which have various requirements for help desk, reporting, etc. At present, we see our requirements for a tool to be: 1.) Able to assist the project team in planning and controlling contract activities; 2.) Able to feed certain data, particularly financial in nature, to upper management; 3.) Able to interface with clients to show progress and reports; 4.) Web-enabled; 5.)Ability to be used by the entire enterprise.
Anyone been through a search for something like this? Saving Changes...
John ZacharProduct Dev Manager| Association for Project Management (APM)Brackley,, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Interesting comments above, and I've come very late to the discussion, but . . . .
Don't make the mistake that buying software will help you manage your project! There is, in my opinion, no project management software on the market! There are a number of very good software packages that help schedule task and resources, and therefore relevant costs / expenditure; but there is nothing that helps the project manager decide what comes first, or what needs to be delivered, or how it is going to be done!
Good project mangement, and therefore successful project management is not based on buying the best software. It is based on having a viable PM method, preferably consistent throughout the organisation; and then finding a good way to store data, permitting it to evolve into information to help with the decission making and management of the project. Unfortunately the manufacturers of the software haven't figured this out yet.
has anyone used or tested speedev? it looks interesting, but i can't seem to find any users. Saving Changes...
Michael WoodProject Manager / Business Analyst / Business Process Improvement Guru| Independent ContractorGig Harbor, Wa, United States
John makes an excellent point. Only people can manage projects. Tools are good as long as they leverage a team's ability to focus and achieve common goals. Saving Changes...
John makes an excellent comment. Project Management systems should have been called project planning systems. Having said that, Hydra from the Program Management Group goes a long way to addressing most of the issues above (all of Ronald's), including communication through Lotus Notes. Check the web site: http://www.pm-group.co.uk Saving Changes...
Does anyone know of a simple, inexpensive resource management tool to use? We currently have Project 2000. All of the packages seem to be overkill for what we need. e-project is one software package that has been mentioned. Thanks. Saving Changes...
Does anyone have experience with MS Project 2000's Project Central? I was very interested in exploring this feature and asked our IT department to install it on a server so I could spend some time with it and see if it would meet our needs in terms of communicating project information within and among teams.
The news was not good (IT encountered problems with the web components that run the application, tried many solutions via Microsoft's Technet and concluded: "In my experience if you have a product that does not install properly in the first place (or at least has minimal adjustments) you will run in to significant problems in the future.")
We are a smallish company with an IT department stretched VERY thin and I am having trouble getting back in their queue to pursue this further.
We had a similar issue with Microsoft's Project Central. I'm sure you all have heard enough about the shortcomings of this product in user groups, etc.
Our solution...get something else. Did a full blow evaluation of current COTS products and chose a "smallish" vendor called Rational Concepts.
Long story short...100% scheduling/cost integrated solution with all functionality accessible from the web. Easy to use, and their support was incredible. They dedicated a technical support person to us for the entire implementation.
If nothing else, if you're looking for a new solution and web-based initiatives or requirements...take a peek at them. We couldn't be more pleased. Saving Changes...
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We are currently researching MS Project Central? Any feedback from current users on capabilities, functionality, problems, reports, ease of use, etc.? Saving Changes...
