Do your clients fear Microsoft project?

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Mine do. I literally had to enter line items of tasks and objectives that rely on one another to be completed and executed on while assigning resources and hours available to said tasks with milestones and deadlines....in excel.

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We know you do Strategy&. That means you would have to be around to actually drive results and figure out how to actually implement your pretty decks and I know that sounds scary. Oh wait, you're likely former PwC that got moved over to strategy& because everyone else left. You know the pain then! 😂 sorry I couldn't help myself!

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Yes, we use P6 on site

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OP: I have had to export items into excel so many times that I feel like crying even at the thought of it. The worst part is - they want all the functionality of Project .... in excel. Apparently Project is too fancy, whatever that means.

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Federal client OP?

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I had a client that wanted everything in project but a senior manger from the project team that wanted to track the project in excel. I became the weekly excel -> Microsoft project converter. 3/10 would not recommend

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I fear ms project. F that type of project

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Is it similar to Asana?

Yeah mind blown.

Healthcare

OP, you'd think in that field they'd want something a little more sophisticated.

Whoa OP, think the issues run deeper than MS Project....

But I said sorry...

As a Canadian, I can confirm you're not using it right.

Legacy Booz biatch ... #donthatecauseyourstaffaug #"consulting"

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