Is Microsoft Project for me?

[Mrpush]

Hello,

I have a 3 person team that will be working on projects together. We ALL
need to be able to show and edit project tasks, timelines, due dates etc in a
collaboritive setting.

I want one place for use to work on projects.

Do I need to buy the project server or can individule Project standard or
Pro licenses share and edit a single project?

Thanks much,

MP

 

[Jan De Messemaeker]

Hi,

NEITHER can.
project can't, and Server can't.
Just can't, sorry.
One can open, R/W, the others then read only.
HTH

 

[Catfish Hunter]

MS Projects won't, but Primaverra will. There is a higher price to pay.

 

[davegb]

MS Projects won't, but Primaverra will. There is a higher price to pay.

4 to 5 times as much per seat, last time I checked. And about 6 months
longer on the learning curve to boot!

 

[Catfish Hunter]

Primavera is nothing more than buttons in a differant place. I have had as
many as 5 people in one project at once with Primavera. You can also put it
on the network and anyone can use it. It all depends on what you intend in
doing with a scheduling program.
Some companies require Primavera and some require Projects. I used Primavera
for 15 years and for the last 2 years required to use Projects by this client.

 

[davegb]

Primavera is nothing more than buttons in a differant place. I have had as
many as 5 people in one project at once with Primavera. You can also put it
on the network and anyone can use it. It all depends on what you intend in
doing with a scheduling program.
Some companies require Primavera and some require Projects. I used Primavera
for 15 years and for the last 2 years required to use Projects by this client.

Are you talking about SureTrak or P3?

 

[Catfish Hunter]

P3 (Primavera)
Sure Track was put out to compete with Projects in my opinion.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Try: break your "projects" into individual mpp files stored on a LAN
file server or shared file space. The first person trying to open a
file will get read/write access, and all subsequent tries will be read
only. Odds of the other 2 people absolutely requiring full read-write
while one person working on the project is probably remote. If they
can't get into the file they want for read/write (because someone else
using), then work on another one. My hunch is that this no hardship.
Breaking projects into individual file has other benefits (when project
done, simply move them out of the working file server space to the
"done" folder. You can see the overall view of all projects by
inserting these subprojects into a master project mpp file.

 

[tonyzink]

Hi Mrpush --

I agree with Rob... break your project data into smaller pieces, each
of which is owned and managed by a single person. If you allow multiple
people to edit a project schedule, then where's the accountability?

This requires a little more structure and process, but is that a bad
thing?

If you simply would like to keep your project information in a central
location, and if you're okay with breaking the data into individual
files and putting a process in place to manage the data, then Project
Standard may work for you. You can create a consolidated view of the
projects by inserting the individual schedules into a master.

If, however, you need more robust features for collaboration, security,
and reporting, then Project Server should work. Again... you'll
probably want to break your projects into smaller work packages.

Good luck!

Tony Zink
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[davegb]

P3 (Primavera)
Sure Track was put out to compete with Projects in my opinion.

Then they must have cut the feature set of P3 to one tenth of what it
used to be when I last saw it. The old version did way more than
Project does. How could they do DOD projects with a feature set like
Project's?