MS project management rant slash help
Discussion
Corporate environment - very heavily into Microsoft products. Office360- one drive, teams etc.
I have a new project starting. I have a blank slate so I thought id see what tools I could use - there's a lot of moving parts in the project, 6 team members, lots of moving deadlines etc.
What I want is a way of setting up milestone targets, sub projects, assigning tasks to team members and track progress etc... Ya know... normal project management stuff.
I have access to "planner" within teams but it doesn't seem to do any form of gantt chart of dependency.
I can pay for a license of MS project but looking at the desktop version it doesn't seem to have been modernised as it doesn't integrate with teams or one drive etc.
For some reason project online doesn't work either standalone or as an addon to Planner. My organisation are suggesting I might need MS roadmap...but that would require senior management approval.
Why is the microsoft product lineup so confusing? Hard to figure out which products do what and how they are linked.
For those in organisations that are wedded to MS products - what solutions do you use for managing projects and teams?
I have a new project starting. I have a blank slate so I thought id see what tools I could use - there's a lot of moving parts in the project, 6 team members, lots of moving deadlines etc.
What I want is a way of setting up milestone targets, sub projects, assigning tasks to team members and track progress etc... Ya know... normal project management stuff.
I have access to "planner" within teams but it doesn't seem to do any form of gantt chart of dependency.
I can pay for a license of MS project but looking at the desktop version it doesn't seem to have been modernised as it doesn't integrate with teams or one drive etc.
For some reason project online doesn't work either standalone or as an addon to Planner. My organisation are suggesting I might need MS roadmap...but that would require senior management approval.
Why is the microsoft product lineup so confusing? Hard to figure out which products do what and how they are linked.
For those in organisations that are wedded to MS products - what solutions do you use for managing projects and teams?
"Project for the web" is the latest version of Project and can (I assume!) integrate better into an O365 environment than desktop Project.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/plan...
My employer recently rolled this out for certain projects but thankfully I haven't had to deal with it myself yet. I still use Smartsheet, which is a great cloud based tool for exactly what you need...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/plan...
My employer recently rolled this out for certain projects but thankfully I haven't had to deal with it myself yet. I still use Smartsheet, which is a great cloud based tool for exactly what you need...
I've always used Primavera, but unless you're running very large scale engineering projects this is total overkill.
Jira is usually a good answer. MS Project hasn't changed significantly in >20 years, so has been left behind by more modern tools, and either needs to be killed off completely, or radically re-written.
Jira is usually a good answer. MS Project hasn't changed significantly in >20 years, so has been left behind by more modern tools, and either needs to be killed off completely, or radically re-written.
Edited by Magnum 475 on Friday 2nd May 12:08
You can upgrade Microsoft Planner to the premium version to get gantt charts and dependencies. Not used it personally, but maybe an option.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/compare...
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/compare...
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