About five+ years ago we built a project management system to work with three clients and their parent company. We rebuilt/reinstalled versions of it for each client. A couple years ago it started getting old and needed some modifications. So I started searching for a system to use and tested quite a few.

Long story short, we picked one that did what we needed and was built well enough as a base that it was easy for us to modify. I didn't really need it at the time, the old one worked, but I knew the old one would soon meet its end.

It took a while, but we finally got the new one up and running with only a couple minor changes. Then we had a few more and rolled out v.2.1.

Now I'm getting so slammed with work that this tool is invaluable. Plus we don't have time to work on or find something like it. I'm soooo glad I planned for this. We've got one project being worked on by people in Shanghai, San Francisco, Seattle and Berlin. There's a spam filter involved that eats about 30% of my emails. With the time differences, email issues, complexity, people... this tool is going to make life soooooo much easier.

Another thing we planned for was contracts. I took everything I've had problems with in contracts from the past 10+ years, gave them to an attorney and spent a few thousand dollars having him write a master contract. So now all the little details are covered (well, at least to the highest extent possible.) So far we have only had one question that wasn't answered in the contract - "Do you have insurance for the indemnification?" Live and learn...

Planning makes this soooooooooo much easier.

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Are you guys using mac / omni or MS project/visio or other software?

So what's the name of the system?

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Are you guys using mac / omni or MS project/visio or other software?

No. Frankly, I'm unhappy with the OmniGroup guys. When they first announced OmniPlan I noticed there was no networking nor web option. Sorry, but any project I don't need to have other people involved with, I can do in my head, on a piece of paper, in a RTF doc...

No networking or a web interface makes the app completely useless for me. All those features, but no way to collaborate. v.2 will have some sort of networking option, but it hasn't been announced yet. If they require each user to have OmniPlan, it will again be useless for my uses. I simply can't expect every client, vendor, contractor... to have a Mac.

We use a fully web-based solution that's based off an open source project named ProjectPier.

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Hm - interesting. I've only been playing with OmniPlan a little bit and found it to be lacking a number of features (and 'features') that are in Project, which I've only picked up myself recently out of necessity. It's by no means perfect software (project), but it's making due.

Thanks for the link to ProjectPier - I'll have to look into it.

Can't be all 'that' busy if you still have time to post here.... ;)

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Can't be all 'that' busy if you still have time to post here.... ;)

Took me an hour or so to write that post. Plus I did that in the middle because I needed to breathe for a minute.

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he multi-tasks and delegates very well. That and the Guatemalan child labor he has chained in the garage.