MS Project to Primavera conversion questions

[jancebk]

The organization I am currently working with is considering switching from MS Project 98 (some MS Project 2002) to Primavera. There are many Project Managers and Analysts here who use MS Project, and many project schedules maintained through the tool. THe primary reason for considering other PM tools is the weak budgeting/ forecasting features of MS Project.
What is the average learning curve for someone who is at an intermediate/expert level in MS Project to learn Primavera?
Have you converted your existing MS Project schedules over to Primavera successfully?
What types of things were surprises to your organization?
What were the reasons your company chose to "leave" MS Project and use Primavera?

Thank you in advance!
J

 

[mbuell]

You sure didn't get much response to this, but I would be very interested in hearing the answers you get.

Thanks;
Mark

Mark
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[jancebk]

Mark ~
Unfortunately, I haven't received any responses, but we can hope!

I just switched jobs and am no longer with the company for which I posted this question, but maybe you'll have better luck...

Jan

 

[dcalvano]

jancebk,

I have converted from MSProject versions, for the the exact reasons you mentioned. I am a senior project controls analyst with the Navy. We monitor and forecast projections to senior management on many development programs i.e. F/A-18, EA-18G etc. The problem is our contractors provide their schedule information in many various formats. Currently we are looking into how we can take all this information and develop/archive a master schedule database for analysis and historical archive purposes for cost estimating.

The solution outside of the PIPE. EXE solution in P3 is a XML standard. Is anyone aware of this standard and where it is as far as industry is concerned?

Thanks!!

dcalvano

 

[mbuell]

dcalvano: I think you should put this in a new thread, if you haven't already. Your situation deserves its own space.

As for an XML standard, I know nothing. XML is so new - I've done some work with it two years ago, but that's it. It seems to me to be getting very slow reception for what seems to me to be such a promising technique.

If you already put up a new thread for your situation, then please post a reference here.

Thnkx

Mark
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[mbuell]

SEE ALSO: thread912-554341

Mark
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