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PI is best for companies that have sophisticated project management feature requirements like scheduling, budgeting, time-tracking, & capacity planning, but who want a simple, adoptable tool.
OpenProject is designed for companies of any industry and size that manage their own projects and value privacy, security and data sovereignty.
It is so much profitable while exploring it more and more scheduling and resource management is fantastic.
I had never deployed a Program Management Tool and this was a very aggressive schedule.
The statistics charts look really good and help to understand the status. Reporting through Gantt charts helps further understanding the statistics and make this system look good.
Exporting data can be a mess. Price might be high for the market target of this software.
PI has so many great tools and reports it is excellent to allow users to "deep dive" on their projects to help identify issues and tasks that may need improving.
The scroll down on the time grid should automatically keep the heading for the dates. It’s hard to constantly rescroll and keep the Info needed where it needs to be.
Power users have the ability to create their own forms and add form fields to reports. Consultant is very responsive to requests and is delightful to work with.
Furthermore, many customization choices were restricted, hence posing challenges in adapting the platform to our precise requirements.
I like the task management featuresThe time tracking capabilities ensure better delivery timelinesI like the ease of schedulingWe have been able to boost productivity with this software.
Blocked account for no reason, didn't say for how long, didn't provide way to unblock.
OpenProject has the best robust and reliable features which are making everything fall into place and we are almost being done with some of the projects.
Budgeting is OK, but again awkward as the plugin appears to apply to all projects when within a single project. There is no baseline feature and no way to compare performance verses the baseline.
Very satisfied and happy with how it has made project management very easy and on team projects it is fast and lively in delivery of projects.
At first it was unclear how to make edits, until you discover you have to select rows first.
Very good to organize your projects, its free to implement, I feel it very easy to use a good option for free.
The way of handling the timeline is not flexible as it shoud.
Jacob: Hi, my name is Jacob, and I am the chapter administrator for LANFest Colorado. We are a roughly 500 person strong company and we use OpenProject a lot, so I'm going to give it a five. So, before OpenProject, we were actually utilizing a variety of things, the most mundane of which was email, sending emails back and forth, trying to collaborate on projects. We then switched to Google Drive, but that just didn't quite do what we needed to. Myself as the chapter administrator, I needed to see the overall view of the entire project and what was going on, and Google Drive just did not allow me to do that. Some of the reasons that we chose OpenProject were fairly simple. One, because of the fact that it's open-source and can be deployed on your own host, it's free if you have the infrastructure. So we were able to deploy it that way, compared to other services which charge a significant amount. Us being a 501(c)(3) charity, we try to cut costs wherever we can. So it certainly was a easy decision. Additionally, it had features that we did not have using Google Drive. Again, that overarching view of the entire project, the ability for me to assign tasks to people rather than it just being on a spreadsheet. Getting started with OpenProject wasn't, admittedly, the easiest at first. I am not a Linux person. I am a Windows Systems Administrator in my normal life. So getting some of the HTTPS set up, and things like that, did take a little bit of technical knowhow. However, because of the nature of my team and what it is that we do, I have people that can do that. So I did outsource it to other employees and we managed to get it up and running very quickly. If you're considering getting OpenProject, there's a few things I would recommend you do first. First and foremost, do you need it? And I'm not saying that OpenProject is not necessary, but it is definitely a learning curve. It is definitely a very large time investment to learn how to use the software. If you only have a small team, five people, maybe this isn't the software for you. But as you start to scale, as you start to get bigger and bigger with your projects, this is definitely something you need. And of course, if it's cost related, if you're worried about costs or anything like that, if you can self-deploy this, it is relatively easy and, of course, free.
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