Of The Best (including free) Microsoft Project Alternatives: Download The Complete Guide. Is there really a viable Microsoft Project alternative for creating project plans and timing plans? Find out with our newly updated article for 2. Microsoft Project alternative. Torrent Blood And Guts A History Of Surgery more. And that’s the point of this article. For those of you who are on the hunt for a Microsoft Project 2.

If we’re really honest, though, for most of the digital projects that we manage, Microsoft Project does far more than we ever need it for – it’s got stacks of features that most people never use, hasn’t really changed that much in 3. So are there any real Microsoft Project alternatives – paid, or even better, for free – that are worth using? You can now pick up a copy of Microsoft Project, on Amazon for less than $5. Office 3. 65. What’s more, Microsoft Project is not just a fuzzy old tool that Microsoft don’t really care about – they’re introducing some really smart integrations with Power BI, Internet of Things, bots and machine learning that are awesome.

The cloud- based, online Microsoft Project alternatives are now almost all charging by user – rather than by the number of projects – which is making MS Project alternatives on average cost about $1. They’re also nearly all transitioning from being simple Gantt chart tools to trying to be project, task and resource management tools. There are loads of project management software alternatives out there, many of which do all kinds of things that we, as digital project managers will never make use of, so what do we actually use it for?

There are loads of other things that MS Project does – resource management and portfolio management with business intelligence integrations are great. But generally speaking, this is really all we end up using it for – there are lots of great functions that we don’t use. But we don’t usually need to, so let’s not worry about it. There is a very convenient feature to Import MS Project XML directly in the tool so migration goes quickly. It is completely free for up to 9 users which makes it a no- brainer for most project managers that today are using Microsoft Project Standard as you can have it up and running on your desktop in a few clicks.

Once you have imported your existing plans, you can start using the powerful Reports & Dashboards to easily get an overview and share progress with your stakeholders. The collaboration features, including an easy- to- use todo list for team members, newsfeed and comments makes it much more easy than with MS Project to keep the plan up to date and relevant to the project.

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Export your project data to Excel for in-depth data analysis and create visual reports by using Excel PivotTables, charts, and other features.

To collaborate with others, you can host a server either on- premise or let Hansoft host it for you. It’s a paid, cloud hosted and web- based system complete with mobile apps which enable some pretty powerful collaborative tools with alerts and reminders as the project timeline changes over time. It delivers the basics well – creating pretty drag and drop Gantt charts with tasks, subtasks, milestones, assigned resources and dependencies to tasks. It also offers a broader capability for resource management, reporting, and forms; they’ve begun to layer on a lot of features although I’m not sure how helpful they really are in the world of digital project management.

Smartsheet is one of the better- known products and with good reason – it’s a solid product. The only real snags are the inability to produce a high- level project summary and the inability to export as a .

XML. To be honest, it doesn’t fall neatly into our selection criteria, but it’s worth including as an alternative way of approaching the challenge to create shareable project plans. It’s a project management tool more akin to JIRA, Clarizen or Asana – based around tasks, Wrike allows you to define and assign tasks and track their progress in real- time. You can easily import your . Microsoft Project plans into the interface, although exporting is limited to .

XLS. The Gantt chart view works but the control of interdependencies and predecessors is a bit cumbersome so it’s not a clean like for like solution, but it’s definitely a workable solution. For the price (which they’ve priced very competitively), you can create Gantt charts and you’ve then armed with a swathe of other project management tools and potential integrations and features that you might find useful.

It does a reasonable job of imitating the layout and interface of Project so if you’re familiar with it, you’ll be able to download it and get going with very little learning curve; it’s easy to create a simple Gantt chart with the usual workflow; creating indented work breakdown structure (WBS), set durations, create links and assign resources. It even opens . mpp files although it can’t save them back to the same format, instead saving them as XML files which are annoying. It all sounds good, but when you try using it, you can’t help but wish you were just using Microsoft Project; it’s just very clunky, ugly, and fiddly to use. Yes, it’s free, but do yourself a favour and spend a few bucks to get something that actually works properly. It’s billed as a more simple and collaborative alternative to Project, but is really aimed at replacing teams trying to collaborate using Excel. Because of that, it looks a lot like MS Excel – there isn’t a way to define dependencies and defining non- working time (e. That said, if you’re looking to produce a simple project plan, it’s pretty good.

It’s web based, extremely intuitive and easy- to- use. A great feature is being able to publish your charts online and invite others to collaborate on projects (a free account suffices to accept invitations), add links to other websites and other online documents and embed your schedule in your own blog/website or intranet. The real selling point here is that it’s online, shareable, and collaborative, the downside is that it’s very basic.

Gantter – http: //gantter. Quick Update: This is becoming too buggy to use and is now unsupported! Gantter is a free Microsoft Project alternative that looks a lot like Microsoft Project 2. The great thing is, if you’re a Microsoft Project user, it’s actually pretty usable – you can do most of the things you’d expect to be able to do in Project; create Gantt charts with dependencies and resources assigned, import and export .

It also plays nicely with the cloud so you can share it around nicely too. The upside is that it’s free and it’s actually very familiar feeling, in a nostalgic millennium kind of way. The downside is that it’s super ugly. Amanda King Of Queens here. Gantter is free! Summary of Gantter: Create a Gantt chart: Pass. Create a project overview chart: Fail. Import and export .

Pass. Export PDF’s or shareable project plans: Pass. Overall score: 3/5.

Alright, there you go, for you crazy digital project managers who are still holding on to your creative side, and are playing around on Macs, here’s a couple of desktop based option for you. Desktop based options are important because we can’t always be on the interwebs, like when we’re on planes (yes, I know, some of them offer overpriced terribly slow Wi. Fi but you know what I mean).

Omniplan is made by the Omni group – makers of Omnigraffle, so these peeps know what they’re doing. It delivers the basics well – creating pretty drag and drop Gantt charts with tasks, subtasks, milestones, assigned resources and dependencies to tasks.

Powered by your own, or the Omni sync server, it also has some more advanced collaboration features which work pretty nicely. Keeping projects up- to- date is powered by whole- project sharing where change- tracking, automatic publishing, and instant updates notify you when changes are made to the timeline, tasks, or amount of work completed, Omniplan allows you to accept or reject the changes one by one, or en masse. It’s a great Mac alternative to Microsoft Project, and looks very similar, with many of the granular controls for creating project plans that many of the other options out there gloss over.