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[quote]Just what level of detail do we "collectively" want to go to? Who would value that level of detail? [/quote]
Good question Guy!
IMO, detail is going to have an exponential relationship with the number of questions/factors to be asked/reported. Each software package has its own strengths and weaknesses. What about niche products?
Bernard Ertl
InterPlan Systems Inc. - Project Management Software, Project Planning Software
Great idea.
Lets see what the software vendors feel they offer, and if there are differences between what we want/ need as Planners. We could work on both approaches independantly and then correlate the two and identify any differences, if any.
May also I suggest we go back to the vendors that have approached PP and ask them what sort of feedback they require.
This is a normal up-front PM activity - define the customers requirements.
Seems like a good idea. A feature a find many products lack is a good clearly laid PERT of network logic view. To me this is a key feature when creating and building plans form scratch. Without mentioning product names one major vendor makes his money by providing a graphical add on service to virtually all, if not all current planning software packages out there in the market place. Perhaps the details of graphical reporting could be split to take into account: network view, barcharts, resources, wbs/ obs structure drawing etc. Usability/ configurability, etc could all be scored
I feel sure that other Planning Planeters could add to this initial stab of mine.
Just what level of detail do we "collectively" want to go to? Who would value that level of detail?
Ron, the intention with my suggested questions was to allow members to review individual software as they like. Some software will naturally have more reviews posted as I perceive the Planning Planets membership to be skewed in favor of Primavera users.
I tried to account for the bias you mention by including a question covering years of experience with the software being reviewed.
There really isnt any way to remove all bias from an open (and anonymous) survey.
BTW, Ive catalogued about two dozen different Windows based project management systems in my Project Management Software Directory. There are also many web based systems. Are we going to include them all??
Bernard Ertl
InterPlan Systems Inc. - Project Management Software, Project Planning Software