I haven't used Project for a couple of years, but last I saw it was not the sort of tool where you could quickly drag-and-drop projects around and see how it would impact all of the dates. It was a fairly complicated process and was more appropriate for managing tasks within projects, rather than projects themselves. It was a.) way too complicated, and b.) way too slow.
Doing the dynamic reprioritization I described is only possible (as far as I know) if you have a "meta project" that encompasses all of the others, and if you can then take the time to manually relink everything. (To show that they happen in serial and not parallel you need to link them... the tasks end up being a big linked list, essentially, meaning that to reorder them you need to break the links and reform them. That's a lot slower than just dragging and dropping in a "queue" style order.) Then again, maybe if I just had more of a clue with Project that wouldn't be the case, but I don't *think* so. From everything I've read, the use case I described actually seems to be pretty rare, which seems odd. Nicholas On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Brad Knowles <[email protected]> wrote: > Nicholas Tang wrote: > >> I was wondering if anyone knew of any project prioritization tools >> that are free/low-cost and allow for some sort of dynamic project and >> resource allocation. > > For good or ill, the most obvious project management tool that people are > likely to be familiar with is Microsoft Project. > > I don't know a whole lot about it myself [0], but I'd be curious to know if > you've looked at it for this purpose and if so, what specific shortcomings > it has that makes it less than suitable? Are there any other specific tools > you've looked at and ruled out, and why? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [0] And, I generally try to lead a Microsoft-free life to the greatest > possible degree. > > -- > Brad Knowles > <[email protected]> If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out > LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at > <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> http://preview.tinyurl.com/bigsbytracks > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
