Project Management bores the pants off me. Basically, I suffer it for eight hours per day as it pays me more than I need for a comfortable living. Within the working life of a bored PM one of my real hates is the corporate love and reliance of Microsoft products. This love affair forces me to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project. Excel and PowerPoint I can just about suffer, Word I truly hate, but Project... don't get me started on it...
I've been fiddling OmniPlan for a few days now and, apart from quirks to be ironed out, I think it has fabulous potential. I've read about the lack of core functionality and I agree, but this app offers something very important that has been missing for a very long time. Usability.
I use a Wacom tablet with my Mac. The ease and elegance with which the OmniPlan gantt chart can be manipulated with a pen and tablet is astounding. I even managed to get non project literate, gantt chart hating team members to take an interest in this. Absolutely amazing.
I truly believe that OmniPlan has a lot to offer. It has the potential to massively reduce training time, update and review time and to make me a bit happier as I put up with the day job. There is real potential here with such a fresh innovative approach. Sure it's far from perfect, but I for one want to really encourage the ongoing development of an application that is serving a complex and fickle market while catering for immature project teams.
I've been fiddling OmniPlan for a few days now and, apart from quirks to be ironed out, I think it has fabulous potential. I've read about the lack of core functionality and I agree, but this app offers something very important that has been missing for a very long time. Usability.
I use a Wacom tablet with my Mac. The ease and elegance with which the OmniPlan gantt chart can be manipulated with a pen and tablet is astounding. I even managed to get non project literate, gantt chart hating team members to take an interest in this. Absolutely amazing.
I truly believe that OmniPlan has a lot to offer. It has the potential to massively reduce training time, update and review time and to make me a bit happier as I put up with the day job. There is real potential here with such a fresh innovative approach. Sure it's far from perfect, but I for one want to really encourage the ongoing development of an application that is serving a complex and fickle market while catering for immature project teams.