Hi Smartsheeters,
I have ditched MS Projects in favor of Smarsheet back in 2012. Haven't used for about 2 years and just sold it again to executive management at a new company I have started. Been building schedules in Smartsheet the last 2-3 weeks and just today remembered why I have ditched Smartsheet.
Here's the scenario. Teams Meeting, 5-8 participants from different countries, everybody poised to get cracking at sequencing tasks and suddenly I vaguely remember one of biggest scheduling shortcomings/issue/problem I had in the past. One cannot chop and change dates for tasks with dependencies without something getting broken along the way.
I know there are many work-arounds but honestly, every PM tool I have worked with in past have the ability to move tasks on the Gannt and keeping "ALL" dependencies in place. And yes, as a PMP, I am very much aware of industry standards and what "the correct" way is of doing scheduling but in the real word, as it plays out when team members from different time zones have to wait for a painful process of repairing broken dependencies. You want the ability to shift dates at will without additional work.
Spent a quick 5-10m searching the community forums but couldn't get any official feedback from Smartsheet regarding this. Any of you perhaps know what the official stance is on this as I think it might be a game ender for us?
Much appreciated
Georg
