What tools do you use to manage simultaneously multiple similar projects?

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Catalin Babalac IT Project Manager| Orange Bucharest, Romania

I have to manage multiple similar projects, with almost the same tasks. Not all the projects will start at the same time, they will be shifted depending on the customer agreement to launch the project. I know about excel but I search something more ingenious and professional. I've heard also about managing in MS Project via Master Project, never using this function. What is your opinion?

Posted: Feb 9, 2018 8:51 AM (Updated by author: Feb 9, 2018 8:51 AM)

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Catalin Babalac IT Project Manager| Orange Bucharest, Romania

Feb 09, 2018 4:57 PM

Replying to Kiron Bondale

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Catalin -

MS Project offers greater richness of PM-focused capability, but what do you specifically need? Just because it has a bunch of great features, that power comes with great responsibility and if you don't use the underlying scheduler properly, you can get into trouble much easier than with MS Excel...

Kiron

Hello Kiron,

I used MS project in the past for single based separate projects. Now under the same hat I will have to implement small software products to different departments inside the company. We expect to have several projects (10-20) running at the same time. Because we want to promote ourselves (the project team) as digital advocates towards the board we need to use intelligent tools, easy to use, that can deliver nice graphs on the status of each project. We need to automatize everything as much as possible, in terms of reporting. We have licenses of MS project, but maybe there are some other leading new generation tools that worth the attention - I heard about proofhub.com

Posted: Feb 11, 2018 4:58 PM

Catalin Babalac IT Project Manager| Orange Bucharest, Romania

Feb 11, 2018 3:38 PM

Replying to Drew Craig

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Simply b/c there are similar tasks, may not warrant unnecessary complexity. Be aware MS Project has license costs, so if the organization does not already utilize MS Project, going that route may prove more difficult than just the implementation. What is allowed within your organization? That will help to identify a solution that would be available to you. What do you use currently?

Hello Andrew,

We use today MS Project and subsequently other kanban tools. We want something automated in terms of reporting the status of the project + gantt chart for each individual project without using an excel, to promote ourselves as advocates for automation. For example I heard about proofhub.com.

Posted: Feb 11, 2018 5:05 PM

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