I'm looking at OmniPlan as an option after a few years away from using any project management application (bar OmniFocus). I used the Microsoft product back in the 90s...
So, two things that I can't find in OmniPlan: I'm wondering whether they are there and I just can't find them, or whether they aren't there and might make it in one day.
First one is auto levelling, by which I mean having the application perform resource levelling whenever it's required without having the user need to remember to do it (and risking the chart being invalid if he doesn't). I can't see a way to set this as a preference, and I don't see anything that would prompt me to ask for levelling to be performed when required either (for example when a resource is accidentally allocated over 100%). Fairly sure this was an option in MSP even back when machines were a lot slower than they are today.
Second thing I don't see at present is any way to show slack time for a task, which is to say the amount by which a task would have to slip in order to impact the critical path. I used to find this really useful.
These were the only two things I couldn't see in OmniPlan that I really wanted; it looks like a really polished product otherwise.
So, two things that I can't find in OmniPlan: I'm wondering whether they are there and I just can't find them, or whether they aren't there and might make it in one day.
First one is auto levelling, by which I mean having the application perform resource levelling whenever it's required without having the user need to remember to do it (and risking the chart being invalid if he doesn't). I can't see a way to set this as a preference, and I don't see anything that would prompt me to ask for levelling to be performed when required either (for example when a resource is accidentally allocated over 100%). Fairly sure this was an option in MSP even back when machines were a lot slower than they are today.
Second thing I don't see at present is any way to show slack time for a task, which is to say the amount by which a task would have to slip in order to impact the critical path. I used to find this really useful.
These were the only two things I couldn't see in OmniPlan that I really wanted; it looks like a really polished product otherwise.
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