Would you like to know which actually are the best and most used tools for Project Management? Would you discover strenghts and weaknesses of each one? And want to know why and how are Professionals using these tools? If you can answer Yes to at least one of these questions, then you are interested in this survey's results.

1. April, 2017 1
“Project Manager's Best Tools” Survey
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Would you know which
actually are the best and
most used tools for
Project Management?
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Would you discover
strengths and
weaknesses of
each one?
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And want to know why
and how are Professionals
using these tools?Survey and analysis by
Michele Taverna

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Software Tools, Graph #1/2
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Project Objects
ProjectManager.com
Prosis Solutions PROJECT in a box
SAP PS, Project System
ServiceNow
Slack
Taiga Agile TAIGA
Upland Tenrox
Asana
Basecamp
Evernote
Hewlett Packard PPM, Project and Portfolio Management
Microsoft SharePoint
ProjectLibre
RedMine
Microsoft Excel
Atlassian JIRA
Trello
Microsoft Project
0 5 10 15 20 25 30

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Software Tools, Graph #2/2
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CA Clarity PPM, Project and Portfolio Management
Doist Todoist
Google Calendar
Hewlett Packard ALM, Application Lifecycle Management
Hydra
i2e Consulting Project Planning Pro
JetBrains YouTrack
Logic Software EasyProject
Microsoft Office 365 Planner
Microsoft Outlook and OneNote
Microsoft PowerPoint
MindJet MindManager
MindTools Gantt Charts
Next Project
OPPM, One-Page Project Manager
Oracle Primavera
Planview
Planview Project Place
Microsoft Project
0 5 10 15 20 25 30

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Software Tools, Details #1/2
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Microsoft Project https://products.office.com/en-us/project/project-and-portfolio-management-software
Trello https://trello.com/
Atlassian JIRA https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
Microsoft Excel https://products.office.com/en-us/excel
RedMine http://www.redmine.org/
ProjectLibre http://www.projectlibre.com/
Microsoft SharePoint https://products.office.com/en-us/sharepoint/collaboration
Hewlett Packard PPM, Project and Portfolio
Management
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software-solutions/ppm-it-project-portfolio-management/
Evernote https://evernote.com/
Basecamp https://basecamp.com/
Asana https://asana.com/
Upland Tenrox http://uplandsoftware.com/tenrox/
Taiga Agile TAIGA https://taiga.io/
Slack https://slack.com/
ServiceNow https://www.servicenow.com/solutions/role/project-management.html
SAP PS, Project System https://www.slideshare.net/amlansarkar1/project-system-overview
Prosis Solutions PROJECT in a box http://www.projectinabox.org.uk/
ProjectManager.com https://www.projectmanager.com/
Project Objects http://www.projectobjects.com/

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Software Tools, Details #2/2
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Planview Project Place https://www.projectplace.com/
Planview http://www.planview.com/
Oracle Primavera http://www.oracle.com/partners/en/products/applications/primavera/overview/index.html
OPPM, One-Page Project Manager https://oppmi.com/
Next Project (unknown)
MindTools Gantt Charts https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_03.htm
MindJet MindManager https://www.mindjet.com/mindmanager/
Microsoft PowerPoint https://products.office.com/en-us/powerpoint
Microsoft Outlook and OneNote http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/turn-outlook-project-management-tool-onenote-integration/
Microsoft Office 365 Planner https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-planner
Logic Software EasyProject https://www.easyprojects.net/
JetBrains YouTrack https://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack/
i2e Consulting Project Planning Pro https://www.planningproapp.com/
Hydra http://www.hydra.cloud/en/why-hydra/benefits
Hewlett Packard ALM, Application Lifecycle Management https://saas.hpe.com/en-us/software/application-lifecycle-management
Google Calendar https://calendar.google.com/calendar
Doist Todoist https://en.todoist.com/
CA Clarity PPM, Project and Portfolio Management https://www.ca.com/us/products/ca-project-portfolio-management.html

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Software Tools, Who Choose
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47%
39%
14%
PM choices
Corporate choises
Other
Other:
Microsoft Project was the corporate tool.
Evaluated and selected Tenrox as company-wide
replacement tracking tool.
Suggested by a Course.
Use of Customer's standard tools.

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Software Tools, Costs
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35%
63%
2%
Free or Open source
Licensed for a fee
Other

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Software Tools, Accessibility
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40%
60%
Offline
Online

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Software Tools, Sociability
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81%
19%
Sharing and Collaboration are supported?
Yes No

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Software Tools, Pros and Cons
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Some opinion...
Microsoft Project is widely used, mainly as stand-alone, and can be considered as a
standard. Easy to schedule activities, determine critical path, resource planning and
sharing.
Tenrox has a strong tracking for hours-budget-expenses and an extensive reporting tools.
Trello is simple and intuitive to use, agile friendly. As Asana is free.
Both are great for collaboration, even for teams not in the same company.
Jira reporting is weak.
Next Project is freeware and easy to use. Put all PM methods on one place.
ProjectLibre in an interesting free alternative to MS Project.
ProjectManager.com has great reporting, status tracking and resource task assignments,
but only SaaS based and no on-premises offering.
Excel, surely not PM designed, but is a simple and flexible way to perform many tasks.

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Software Tools, Experiences
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Some opinion...
Many Project Managers with years of experience
think Microsoft Project is the favorite tool.
Someone use the only tools available in the
organization, not always perceived as the best ones.
In order to connect all team's members, platforms as
Trello and Asana seems to be great choices. Even
though they are not the best tools, collaboration they
offer is valuable.

12. April, 2017 12
Methodology, Graphs
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52%
48%
Methodologies or Frameworks you are using
Agile Waterfall
41%
14% 5%
41%
Agile in Detail...
Scrum
Lean
Kanban
Not specified

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Methodology, Experiences
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Some opinion...
Waterfall is the most accepted way to schedule
hardware development and deployment projects.
Makes also easy to run parallel projects for same
end-customer on different deployments sites.
For bigger projects, Waterfall is more suitable.

14. April, 2017 14
Demographics, Company Sizes
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Myself only
2-10
11-50
51-200
201-500
501-1.000
1.001-5.000
5.001-10.000
10,001+
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%

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Demographics, Team Dimensions
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Me, myself and I
2-4 persons
5-7 persons
8-10 persons
10+ persons
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%

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Demographics, Project Sizes
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28%
53%
19%
Small projects
Medium projects
Large projects

17. April, 2017 17
Demographics, Projects Duration
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<1 month
1-2 months
3-6 months
6-12 months
about 1 year
about 2 years
>2 years
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

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Published on: February 8th
, 2017
Ended on: March 26th
, 2017
Interviewed PMs: 36
Survey Summary
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Analytics, Referrers & Browsers
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Analytics, Countries & Platforms
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Survey and analysis by Michele Taverna.
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but those of the participants of this survey.
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“Project Manager's Best Tools” Survey