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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
Would you track a project in ms excel or ms project?
My choice would be ms project. I would still use ms excel as a project management tool, but never for project tracking.
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Ed Tsyitee Jr Consultant | Consultant Tucson, Az, United States
MS Project is Excel on steroids. I'd rather use Project over Excel. Speaking, of, I need to work on my Excel skills.
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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
Thank you for the great input. I appreciate the feedback.
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Charles Brazeau Director of Property Management| The Jewish Community Campus of Ottawa Inc. Cantley, Quebec, Canada
I think both tools offer pros an cons based on a number of factors. We manage large quantities of small to medium projects. MS Project is extremely efficient for planning processes and for various reports. With that said Excel offers a much more simplified solution for simple tracking and is usually understood and used by many stakeholders who could open and manipulate reports when required / appropriate. We use both.
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Mike Dewing Senior Project Manager / Program Manager| MLD Holdings Ltd. Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
My 2 cents... MS Project or equivalent (lots of other options online for a lot cheaper and kept in cloud so your IT folks have less of a say about installing it on servers or locally)
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1 reply by Stéphane Parent
Oct 05, 2017 6:29 PM
Stéphane Parent
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.. except that your IT folks may not want you to put business data outside of your premises.
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Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
Oct 05, 2017 6:28 PM
Replying to Mike Dewing
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My 2 cents... MS Project or equivalent (lots of other options online for a lot cheaper and kept in cloud so your IT folks have less of a say about installing it on servers or locally)
.. except that your IT folks may not want you to put business data outside of your premises.
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1 reply by Mike Dewing
Oct 05, 2017 6:40 PM
Mike Dewing
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That is definitely a concern. Security of these cloud sites are pretty good and as long as no private or confidential details are entered you should be ok. Of course corporate governance must be followed. Thanks for the comment
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Mike Dewing Senior Project Manager / Program Manager| MLD Holdings Ltd. Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Oct 05, 2017 6:29 PM
Replying to Stéphane Parent
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.. except that your IT folks may not want you to put business data outside of your premises.
That is definitely a concern. Security of these cloud sites are pretty good and as long as no private or confidential details are entered you should be ok. Of course corporate governance must be followed. Thanks for the comment
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Charles Brazeau Director of Property Management| The Jewish Community Campus of Ottawa Inc. Cantley, Quebec, Canada
Maybe just one more point,

You need to know how to use a tool well to take full advantage of it. Knowledge and imagination, the key to many things including these two amazing programs.

The paint brush doesn't create the painting, the artist does. The brush is just a tool. Learn to use the tool then make some art. ;-)
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Barbaros Demir MENA Business Development Lead, Project Management| Halliburton Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Depending on the users, if there is.
For example, I have to put schedule on MS Project; but my Cost Baseline to MS Excel, as everybody would like to see the basis.
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Salvatore Castellano Ptoject Engineer| Aerospace Industry Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
Cant we not put it together have export what we need?
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Megan Wale Project Management Templates| Techno-PM Australia
Even I would say MS Project is better one.
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