Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tom's Planner Is an Impressive, Intuitive Project Scheduling Tool
Lifehacker: "If your work life's all laid out in Gantt charts but you're not happy with the tool you're using, check out Tom's Planner, a web-based project scheduling and collaboration tool."
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Often times when creating a schedule I never feel like I really know if I am using the right program. Just tonight I spent hours formatting an IATSE schedule in excel so it would pair well with my budget, but as I was laying it out I knew that excel was not created with scheduling in mind. I don't know if Tom's Planner is really the right bit of software, but I think it would make a good resource. However, I think the layout of information isn't really that clear, and when you are talking about crew people and numbers, there doesn't seem to have a way of laying that out well. Though it may be an "Intuitive" tool, I don't know if it is right for the theatre.
I'm not convinced that there's any software out there that's perfect for a Gantt chart, perhaps the best way to do them remains the old grid on a chalkboard (or whiteboard) to be revised as needed. Every software package has its faults, the question is really not which one is perfect so much as which one has a tolerable set of annoyances that is outweighed by its benefits. This one looks like it's moving to the better side of the annoyance/benefit ratio, but that's without doing more than just playing with it a little.
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