Project Manager software

[Ellen Sleeter, M.A.I.N. Administrator]

Actually, I consider myself medium-to-heavy weight in project management, and I
always bemoan the lack of tools that support my method of projecting my project 
timelines, which tends to be driven by 

And several products that were slow, and DOS-based, but useful to me have
fallen by the wayside over the years.

Go with MS Project.  Yes, it's complex --- but it's really fairly functional,
and if you talk to people who are knowledgeable about project management,
they'll help you use it in a "minimalist" way.  Just knowing what to cut out,
of all of the things that you can track, and representing it to YOURSELF in a
way that communicates is really valuable.

What none of these tools do is to provide a communication bridge to the folks
who don't understand project management.  And I had to dummy up 9 major
projects in April for a priority-settting session that was gonna take us into
1999.  So, I tried what I thought was a minimalist approach, and it worked for
many, and others grudgingly "came along".

Project management-based schemas of "work to be done" are great tools for 
communicating among the converted, however.

My --- this *is* a messianic post, isn't it?

Anyway --- go with MS Project --- the use base is probably the largest and most
diverse there.

Ellen

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>>> on web4lib, Elisa reports that she is drowning in projects:


     Help! I'm drowning in projects.  
     
     Suddenly everyone wants something up on our Web site, whether it is 
     information, so form or some something, I am in the process of 
     developing manageable (?) projects from all of the departmental 
     requests.  
     
     I starting thinking that there is probably a decent project management 
     software package out there,  Are any of you using such a package? What 
     are the pros and cons of using it to manage Web projects?  We have 
     people in our company that use Microsoft Project, but the reviews have 
     been mixed.  I also recently received information on PVCS Tracker from 
     Intersolv, although it may be a little too software project-oriented.  
     Any opinions? Suggestions?
     
     
     Thanks in advance,
     
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