Perfect bundle for small and medium business project managers
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
ConceptDraw PROJECT is being used by my department to manage projects across cross-functional teams.
Pros
- Integration with ConceptDraw Mindmap makes work breakdown very easy.
- We have cross-functional teams where team members often work on different projects in parallel. The multi project management feature has been a blessing over these years.
- Another import feature is the availability of many different predefined report generation templates that made it very easy to communicate different aspects of the project to different stakeholders.
Cons
- We had to spend a good amount of time to understand all the features so some interactive built-in tutorials would have made getting started easier.
- The UI does not look so good in macOS Catalina Dark Mode and I often switch to light mode when working on this software.
- Multiple people working on the same project at a time cannot update as there is no way to synchronize changes so we put the file in our code repo but manually co-ordinate to make sure only one of us is changing the plan at a time.
Likelihood to Recommend
For small and medium companies or independent departments of large companies where usually an individual plans the projects this is the best tool without all the overheads of complex software like Microsoft Project and without any privacy concerns of all online project management tools being used today. Not that convenient when you want your employees to update timesheets, etc., as everything needs to be fed into the tool by the project manager.
Vetted Review
2 years of experience