Summary of lacking features

Mattias

After running a project with multiple sub-projects since june last year, project is preparing/renovation of a eight-floor building for 1300 workers including construction, painting, electrical, lighting, IT, AV, the top three features I have been missing are (no ranking between them):

1. Baseline functionality

2. Ability to lock Milestones/tasks to be aware of shifting dates

3. Possibility to show successors when applying filters.

 

On the Nice-to-have list would be:

1. Ability to resource balance tasks

 

On the plus side of things, the over all reaction I have had when opening up/sharing  Smartsheet has been that it doesnt look as scary/complex as M$ Project. Many times ive heard "That looks like Excel on speed..." 

Since I, like many other users that I have seen here, have a hard time following along the future of Smartsheet development, this is my 5 cents on where the focus ahead should be.

Without those three features above, I do think that I have to revert to M$ Project for my next project to be able to handle things with some control when the sh*t hits the fan.

   

L_123

Not sure I know what you mean by Baseline Functionality

For Number 2 I just have an extra row for milestones and lock the entire row.

For number 3 you can include the parent rows, which will show the higher level tasks (added a screenshot of this). Or you can have a helper column that posts a conditional based on information in the sheet so you can filter by the information you want.

 

For resource balancing tasks you can add an efficiency/effort column, make it be a percent, and use another sheet to reference the project sheets. With this you can see the availability of your resources across all of your projects.