Re: Gantt charts and project management

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Posted by graham.smith
2005-08-25 02:55:59

>> The Gantt project seems to offer a free full blown project >>management tool, but this is over the top for what I want.

>For me too, but I also found that the Java implementation makes it >rather slow.

yes, I generally find Java based programs irritatingly slow to start up, however they seem to run well enough once they are up and running

>> Unless anyone has suggestions for another low cost simple project >>management/gantt chart program.

>I am currently trying out Adept Tracker; at $79 it can read/write >MS Project files and even offers a free viewer.

That looks good and at a very reasonable price

>BTW, how was your experience with Achieve Planner?

I had a few goes at it, but in the end I found I ran out of interest before I had grasped how it worked properly. Some nice ideas though.

Graham