Dear all,
I am coming from Microsoft Project world (which a lot of people consider not a proper scheduling tool) and I am looking now for alternatives.
I have a discussion about Spider Project tool functionality on this forum.
http://www.planningplanet.com/forums/spider-project/530450/tracking-progress-spider#comment-75696 [1]
It appears, that with all obvious to me really cool features of Spider, which I have discovered so far (e.g powerful resource leveling engine; automatic resource assignments based on skills, where one resource may have many skills etc) the tool is not really designed for the situation, where the progress on different tasks is updated on different dates. In another words, once in a tracking stage of a schedule, you have to have actual data entered for all tasks till exactly the same date, before you can press reschedule button. If this is not done, then the tool will just move all of the activities (or remainder of activities), for which there is no progress to start after the latest Data Date available in the tracking database.
It does not have, what I call, “let us assume, that tasks with no progress entered are still on schedule ” functionality . The tool has paradigm, that you have to update all tasks till exactly the same date before you can plan anything further
Obviously there are some ways available to bypass this, but these are more tricks, than recommended ways of working.
Just wondering, how is it done in Asta?
Note: there are a lot of pictures, which illustrate the story, if you follow the link, which I put at the beginning of the post