gigaom: "Microproject is supposed to emulate the ease of project planning on a whiteboard, and it mostly succeeds; the drag-and-drop, Gantt-chart based interface might not be quite as intuitive a scribbling on a whiteboard, but it should be fairly easy to pick up, even for complete project management novices. Adding a new task, for example, is simply a matter of giving it a description and positioning it on the chart. Documentation is limited to a series of tutorial screencasts, but it’s unlikely that most users will need them.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Microproject: Simple, Smart Project Management
gigaom: "Microproject is supposed to emulate the ease of project planning on a whiteboard, and it mostly succeeds; the drag-and-drop, Gantt-chart based interface might not be quite as intuitive a scribbling on a whiteboard, but it should be fairly easy to pick up, even for complete project management novices. Adding a new task, for example, is simply a matter of giving it a description and positioning it on the chart. Documentation is limited to a series of tutorial screencasts, but it’s unlikely that most users will need them.
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This app looks like a nice and fairly intuitive one, especially bringing in the drag-and-drop functionality that makes Google Calendar and other cloud-based applications simple for new users and easy to interpret. Attaching files is a really nice function as well. There doesn't seem to be the ability to construct subtasks, though - that would be a big piece of functionality that would be really useful. The other thing that seems to be missing is a Print function - as much as cloud-based app developers would love to think everyone's walking around with iPads to access their sites, it simply isn't so (yet), and the ability to construct the Gantt chart and print it with a task list onto paper still seems to be a necessity.
Great Angry god but I hate Gantt charts and the programs currently available to make them; and I haven't even really had to USE them terribly much yet! Perhaps if I had learned them using something like Mircoproject I would despise them quite so fervently as I do currently. As with many newly-learned procedures, a great deal of my frustration stems from difficult interface and unintuitive controls (two things Microsoft products do tend to excel at...). If this program can simplify even 1/10 of those other programs' complex functions, then perhaps m fiery white-hot hatred of Gantt charts will turn its focus, more logically, to how they're currently made and not they themselves.
In response to both the Microproject and Binfire postings, there seems to be an infinity of web-based, pay per month project management and/or CRM softwares out there. I am sure each has its comparative advantages and a target market, and that there are many satisfied users, but I really think that for something like this to be most friendly it should allow the user more control over how they interface with the software and the output it produces, and most of these options tend to lack that. With regards to associating files with projects, that's swell, but you're not likely to continually update dozens of AutoCAD files on a third-party website; actual software solutions that operate on the client's system allow for more versatility in this regard, often have options to export scheduling and client data to the web or wherever else, and often require less time investment to try out.
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