Comments on: Project Management Tools: Beyond Gantt Charts

By: Indrek

Indrek — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:58:59 +0000

I would throw in http://www.ganttic.com . Free and easy

By: Barnabas

Barnabas — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:29:20 +0000

I really like MindJet Mind Manager. No strings just a user. Also, MindJet has gantt which is pretty neat.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:52:13 +0000

Have you tried ProjectManager? Manage all your Projects within one easy to use tool which your whole team can access and update anywhere, anytime.

By: piterp

piterp — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:02:45 +0000

I would recommend Ganttzilla.
Great tool.
http://www.ganttzilla.com

By: Yuriy

Yuriy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:42:18 +0000

More than import! ConceptDraw MINDMAP and PROJECT use the same document to work with project. I usually come back from Cantt Chart to MindMap to rework and improve projects.

By: Yuriy

Yuriy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:35:42 +0000

I use ConceptDraw Office as tool to manage my projects. Could your iMindMap automatically create visual reports by project? Or manage multiproject in the same document? I suggest "No" ;) I don't know who is PROWORKFLOW, but I wish him good luck :)

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By: issue tracker

issue tracker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:57:09 +0000

Nice article- I think you hit on a key point here, that half the battle with project management is getting those who are outside of the project management world to find and understand methods they are comfortable with.

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By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:23:46 +0000

If you are interested in mind mapping software I would highly recommend this open source tool: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Simply is fantastic.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:17:35 +0000

PM packages such as those available from MS are expensive and often outside of the budget for a smaller business. This is why I use the PM feature in iMindMap Ultimate, its easy to use and it links dynamically to the Mind Map and visa versa and it is cost effective imports and exports to other packages such as MS PM. Concept Draw is a concept mapping programme and as a ‘pure mind mapper’ does not function to the level I require where as iMindMap does. If you have not tried it then I suggest that you might like to so down load a free 7 day trial from: http://destech.wordpress.com/buzan-imindmap-software/ I will be up front at this point and state clearly that I am a master trainer in this package and licensed trainer for the Buzan Organisation.

By: Proworkflow

Proworkflow — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:15:50 +0000

Traditional Gantt bars are static buckets of time that correspond to single point estimates.I like to recommend to PMs of small projects the ConceptDraw suite. I often find myself speaking to small business PMs who cannoty afford top end or even MS level PM software.

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By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:46:38 +0000

The article touches on something that I’ve had some difficutly with – getting other team members to have a “big picture” view of the project. I do like the mind maps approach, although it does lose the temporal paramteres, which for projects are perhaps one of the most challenging issues to a) actually deal with, and b) get people to recognise the interdependency, particularly the consequences of running late (or early sometimes). I also don’t like gannt charts, they are just very intuitive for most people. I do like some of the agile related methodology and charts (e.g., http://www.agilekiwi.com/agile_charts.htm), it’s a nice way to get a big picture view with realtively little complexity.

By: John

John — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:50:15 +0000

When we first started developing Intervals we swore we'd never implement a Gantt chart, mainly for the reasons you give above. It's surprising though how many people think you can't do project management without them. We've started implementing a quasi-gantt-ish chart we are calling the Periscope report. The idea is to give focus on giving users an above sea level view of their projects and tasks. There is no critical path and resource and task dependencies. It's just a timeline of project, milestone and task durations. It's proven to be quite helpful.