Manage projects with Open Project
June 15, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Geeky Fun, General
I think that those who interact with clients who prefer Microsoft software and file formats would find it difficult. But there are apps that help make life a little bit easier by making it possible to import the file into Microsoft readable files. (Though of course, the reality is that there are constraints, because of the proprietary nature of Microsoft products.) A case in point would be MS Project files. I used to have a client whose project manager gave me an MS Project file and to make it easier on the team, it was exported as a worksheet.
Open Project could open Microsoft Project files. Other things you could do: assign resources to projects, see the what the flows of tasks would be like, compute the budget when you already indicate the resources you want to use, etc.
The following views are available:
- Gantt Chart
- Tracking Gantt Chart
- Network Diagram
- Resource View
- Projects View
- WBS Chart
- RBS Chart
- Report View
- Task Usage Detail
- Resource Usage Detail
- Histogram
- Charts
- Task Usage
- Resource Usage
You could save files in Projity and MS Project formats.
I am not very familiar with MS Project so I can’t really compare the two applications. But as one who has once needed to read the .mpp files, it works for me already. And I think that some changes shouldn’t be too complicated unless the guides are not too clear. There are videos to help new users learn the app.
