[realtyler]

Originally Posted by Lizard

What does OmniPlan give you that an Excel (or Google) spreadsheet doesn't?

Ease of use and resource-level reporting. Excel can be used to do a lot of things if you have the time to create all the formulas, but it's not meant to be a PM tool, and I don't want to spend a lot of time futzing with the tool to make it work. In excel, can I create forumlas to give me resource-level data? Sure, but the hope is that the resource-level reporting is all nicely integrated and I don't have to spend a bunch of time with =sumif(blah...) functions.

I really see it as a couple new views on the data, plus some new inputs to support a sprint:

View 1: Burndown graph view

This view would have a filter (by Resource Group, by Person) which would show the Sprint (or project) and its burndown graph.

View 2: Enhanced resource view

This would show, by resource (& group), something like the attached picture.

The rocking, game-changing feature of this would be to make it server-based, and allow team members to update this on their own. Project X has this (a server, & tasks can be updated through an OSX Dashboard widget), but doesn't support SCRUM (as far as I know) and is in general a huge pain in the <ahem> to use.

[BDLatimer]

To add my vote: I, for another, would really appreciate the addition of something like this. The more options we have for managing the overall schedule online, in a form which can be accessed clearly by others, the better off any and all project managers will be.

[lennie]

Count my vote for Agile tools

I love the whole Omni software family and I think you have the basis of the perfect agile project management solution. It is lightweight, easy to use and I love the clean UI.

If you had explicit Agile/Scrum support (burn down reports, sprint task lists), OminiProject would be hands down 1st choice.

If you added some network capabilities, even lightweight, where I could dump these task lists out for my team to see and _edit_ with their input....I would become an Omni-evangelist!

[skwirl]

Votes added all-around! :-)

As a Scrum Master and very, very happy user of OmniFocus and OminiGraffle, I would love to see a tool for managing Scrum.

[lennie]

Another vote for agility

There are other tools for managing agile projects but the ones I am familiar with are windows based.

I would love to have the option to bounce back & forth between traditional waterfall Gantt charts (for upper management planning & reporting) to Agile sprint planning tools for the project team. This feature would also be helpful for organizations transitioning to Agile from traditional methodologies.

I would also like to see better integration across the omni line.
I currently do a lot of my project planning in Conceptdraw Mindmap. Export to MS Project XML. it would be preferable, If I could easily mindmap in omnigraffel export to omniplan & Omnioutliner and back. Even-better if I could produce sprint burndowns in Plan and not need to create these in excel.

I want, I want , I want...