Rookie here, and I hope I'm not posing questions that have been addressed a bazillion times (I've searched a bit and don't immediately see them in history).
I'm trying to choose a software platform to track progress of tasks across 25+ similar projects, with a pool of 20+/- resources (people). I don't need detailed time or expense tracking, and my crew won't respond well to a complicated platform, so MS Project Professional may be more than we need. But I do want to give it a good chance before going elsewhere. Two critical features I'm not immediately seeing in that platform are:
- the ability of resources to input their own progress or % complete on tasks (perhaps from a stripped-down version of the platform)
- user collaboration (discussion, file uploads, etc.) tied to tasks
Feature #1 is important to us for a number of reasons, one of which is I don't want to become a bottleneck as the dedicated progress-updater-guy. Feature #2 matters because we're pretty team oriented. Even though one person is responsible for a task, others may need to offer input.
I'm also evaluating TeamGantt (www.teamgantt.com [1]) as a potential platform. It does these two things well, but not as robust as MS Project in other areas like reporting, task relationships, and automatic rescheduling.
So my questions are:
- Am I missing MS Project capabilities in these two critical areas?
- Any input on other platforms (TeamGantt or otherwise)?
Many Thanks!