I am looking to learn a Project Management software package to become proficient in this area. What recommendations do people have for someone with a vary sparse budget?
Ezara PenningSystems Administrator I| Lincoln Land Community CollegeSpringfield, Il, United States
Matthew -
You did not mention what application you are interested in becoming proficient in. I'm assuming you are just looking for something/anything at this point to cut your teeth on.
ProjectLibre Community Edition is an open source (free) project management application and can be downloaded from https://www.projectlibre.com/
there is no universal PM tool - MS Office is the most commonly used suite of tools. MS Project knowledge might help if you are working on traditional projects and you could consider looking at Confluence, JIRA or Trello for projects following an agile life cycle.
You can get a lot of good info on these via YouTube and other online free sources but the bigger cost constraint might be to get access to these tools.
When I had initially started to look into this i had found one site called projectmanagement.com which appeared to have a rather slick interface - but, this is from a newbie's perspective so pretty pictures distracts me rather easily ... squirrel. :) Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Whew, that is some ask. Go through Youtube and MPUG for MS Project related videos. As Kiron points out, there is not universal tool There is a lot of commonality though. Just search around, watch some videos, play around if possible. Some local libraries have access to Lynda.com If you have a library card, so check that out. Also, check out sites like udemy.
Check if your organisation has an account with Lynda.com -- Lynda is an REP and has a lot of great content related to the using of PM software (I have seen MS Project, primarily).
My organisation is fantastic when it comes to training and upskilling of its resources - and has purchased access for us to a lot of such content. Saving Changes...
Anish AbrahamPrivacy Program Manager| University of WashingtonAuburn, Wa, United States
I agree with my colleagues here.
MS Office, MS Project, Jira and Sharepoint are some of the commonly used tools. Saving Changes...
If you are a beginner in the project management domain RationalPlan would be a good fit for you since it follows the PMBOK guidelines: https://www.rationalplan.com/ Saving Changes...
