Drake SettsuProject Manager / BloggerHi, 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. Saving Changes...
Are you referring solely to the schedule as Project is not the right tool for many other types of project information?
For schedules, if there is sufficient complexity in the network diagram or resource allocation where some of Project's features can help then I would prefer to use it, but that choice will be heavily influenced by the company's desktop tool standards and whether the stakeholders I am closely working with have access to Project.
I love Project, however, I have to agree with Kiron, it is heavily influenced by the Company's desktop standards which I have always found to be MS Excel. Saving Changes...
To be honest, I find MS project OK for planning but not so good for tracking. It's amazing what you have to do to your MS Project activities to properly report progress and show the correct Gantt chart.
Excel is really a very poor tool for both project planning or tracking. I use it usually to help turn EVM measurements into a graph. That's about it. Saving Changes...
MS project is much better for a large project., especially for the planning aspect. Saving Changes...
Krishna PakkiProject Services Manager| Rio TintoGilbert, Az, United States
Tool is secondary, we choose the tool depending on the scope. In my project, i use Primavera for master schedule management, different teams within project use P6 or MS Project to manage their scope at a next level and excel spread sheets by front end supervisors for weekly look-aheads. Saving Changes...
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