With so many project management software options, what are your favorites for traditional project management and what are your favorites for agile...and why? What is it about the software you are using that you find beneficial? What is lacking? Saving Changes...
Trish MeyerExecutive Program Manager Transformation TeamPlymouth, Mi, United States
SharePoint on steroids is the way to go since it can all go into Excel for pretty reporting or using Excel Services/
We use Service Now's team board for our breakfix elements that come out of operational projects and items requiring compliance verifications through our change board.
For the everyday project management items, we use a cloud solution but we are thinking of moving away from it. There are quite a few solutions out there, but none with great program and portfolio reporting/management. I stay away from MS Project as it's just not an enterprise solution.
Cannot wait to get our organization to Jira. They have some amazing things especially for construction project management Saving Changes...
MS Project, Jira, Excel. Kiron has a good point. It's not so much the tool since they all have certain bells and whistles. It's the education, adoption and utilization of that tool by the team that counts.
Makes sense, right! Th software cannot run itself! :)
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Mar 01, 2018 5:52 PM
Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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True, not until future AI robots take over and do it for us ;-)
What in PM do you want software for? Scheduling, document management, meetings minutes
What size of project?
Many factors influence what is best Saving Changes...
Elaine DiMasiProject Manager specializing in High Tech Instrumentation| Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryOakland, Ca, United States
Thanks for the useful thread.
As a follow up, I'm curious what software people think is good to pair with Project or Primavera for costing? The largest project I worked on (government) used P6 and Cobra. I've used MS Project as a scheduler but not seen great ways to connect it to a costing system. Saving Changes...
Tamer Zeyad SadiqAssistant Cost Manager| Turner & TownsendRiyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
some used as excel sheets, some from MS project, some from Oracle programs as Primavera P6,...ect Saving Changes...
