Recommendations for Project Planning tool
Discussion
I'm finding I'm increasingly getting involved with more complex projects.
My standard approach when bidding for work is to use Excel to plan out the schedule and then use this as the basis of the project plan but this is becoming a little clumsy and seems there are some handy tools that might be better. But there are a great many of them.
Business is marketing / comms so need to plan things like design, production, filming, advertising, etc....
Would be grateful for any recommendations on something that might fit the bill!
TIA
My standard approach when bidding for work is to use Excel to plan out the schedule and then use this as the basis of the project plan but this is becoming a little clumsy and seems there are some handy tools that might be better. But there are a great many of them.
Business is marketing / comms so need to plan things like design, production, filming, advertising, etc....
Would be grateful for any recommendations on something that might fit the bill!
TIA
Which project management methodology do you use?
Something Gantt based tends to be the default for waterfall (which is what most people assume project planning is/looks like) but it's not going to be the right thing to use if it doesn't align with how you work.
If it does, MS Project is the default choice but it's not necessarily the best if project management isn't really what you're doing.
Recently I've been weighing up options for something I am working on with a couple of people for whom formal project management is an entirely alien concept. Have yet to make a final decision but it's coming down to either Gantt Pro or Team Gantt.
Something Gantt based tends to be the default for waterfall (which is what most people assume project planning is/looks like) but it's not going to be the right thing to use if it doesn't align with how you work.
If it does, MS Project is the default choice but it's not necessarily the best if project management isn't really what you're doing.
Recently I've been weighing up options for something I am working on with a couple of people for whom formal project management is an entirely alien concept. Have yet to make a final decision but it's coming down to either Gantt Pro or Team Gantt.
Thanks chaps.
If we win it, that schedule becomes the project management tool which is really just a case of referencing where things are and tweaking as we go if needed.
Not all clients want or need to have sight of this but where they do, I stick it on a shared Google drive.
Works OK but as I mentioned, I feel that with some complex incoming projects that are going to require a more expansive set of collaborators and client involvement, something a bit less clunky would be in order.
I'll check out MS Project.
LooneyTunes said:
Which project management methodology do you use?
At the moment, it starts with a project schedule which simply lists the activities, time period, key dates and milestones. I do this in Excel as a giant chart and forms part of the bid for a project.If we win it, that schedule becomes the project management tool which is really just a case of referencing where things are and tweaking as we go if needed.
Not all clients want or need to have sight of this but where they do, I stick it on a shared Google drive.
Works OK but as I mentioned, I feel that with some complex incoming projects that are going to require a more expansive set of collaborators and client involvement, something a bit less clunky would be in order.
I'll check out MS Project.
Very much a traditional approach (and nothing wrong with that).
MS Project isn’t the best if you want to mix internal/external collaborators. In any event, be careful what you show to clients… the more pragmatic will understand, but some will beat you constantly and sap your time (to the detriment of the project itself!) if you give them too much granular detail…
MS Project isn’t the best if you want to mix internal/external collaborators. In any event, be careful what you show to clients… the more pragmatic will understand, but some will beat you constantly and sap your time (to the detriment of the project itself!) if you give them too much granular detail…
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