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Feedback Summary:
| Version 2.12: | |||||
| Overall Rating: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Not as intuitive as I would like 
- Version: 2.28 Build 20051231, 3/15/2006 09:40AM PST
jgleason
I am a new Mac user and needed Project software for some small to medium projects. Unfortunately, I wasted too much time trying to figure out how to use certain functions, like adding a resource. Maybe this is because I am new to the Mac, but when I compared this to Merlin, there was no contest. Although Merlin was more expensive, it had to win in terms of features and ease of use.
Not very impressed - Version: 2.28, 6/6/2005 01:53AM PST
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ian36
While the interface and basic functionality of this software looks good, I had some problems. Dragging tasks around seemed buggy. However, what I really wanted this software for was to import MS Project files and be able to export them again, thereby avoiding having to use a PC. The MS Project import sucks though. Importing an existing Project 2000 file resulted in a project where many of the dates had shifted unpredictably and tasks had been converted to one-day milestones.
The help file was not detailed enough to offer a possible cause or solution, and my email to the developer went unanswered. Maybe they took offence because I suggested that in my opinion, the product wasn't worth what I had paid for it ( I did purchase the full version).
If you're working on a Mac platform and don't need to import or export to MS Project format, this seems like it would be quite good, however, in my experience, this isn't a cross-platform solution. I'm also not impressed that the developer chose to ignore an enquiry from a registered user.
The program is in the wastebasket, and it ain't coming back out.
The help file was not detailed enough to offer a possible cause or solution, and my email to the developer went unanswered. Maybe they took offence because I suggested that in my opinion, the product wasn't worth what I had paid for it ( I did purchase the full version).
If you're working on a Mac platform and don't need to import or export to MS Project format, this seems like it would be quite good, however, in my experience, this isn't a cross-platform solution. I'm also not impressed that the developer chose to ignore an enquiry from a registered user.
The program is in the wastebasket, and it ain't coming back out.
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- Not very impressed
Another Favorable Comment on PMX - Version: 2.28, 5/16/2005 06:13PM PST
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Skyhorse
It says something about a product when you have to wade through multiple pages of highly favorable comments by satisfied users who are responding to a couple of negative comments by people who apparently had very, very little familiarity with this product. I feel that those who have commented since are a much more reliable source for information about PMX.
I too am a professional who has delivered multiple very large scale projects--some involving worldwide deployments to dozens of sites and the work of hundreds of people, though I don't claim the title of project manager full time. I've used PMX for at least a couple of YEARS now, since at least version 1.8. It was buggy then, but showed great promise, and I used it when I could for smaller, then bigger and bigger projects as it grew. The developer, Joe Jones, is and always has been the most responsive developer I've ever had the pleasure to do business with. He is very open to suggestions, and is VERY fast with implementing good ones, including some of mine as he has so many of the rest of you. He gives us a terrific product at a very fair price, and one that has uniquely Mac qualities that other good Mac--or Windows--Gantt tools simply lack. I use traditional products primarily when I have to deal with those who lack the flexibility of mind to be able to perceive data in anything except a traditional Gantt format, but the ability of PMX to present more data in the same space while keeping it clear and obvious makes it my own personal favorite.
If you find bugs with PMX, let the developer know, and you'll hear from him in a new release a few days later--and the bugs will likely be fixed. This guy really puts a lot of effort into getting it right. If everybody we deal with daily was as conscientious, we'd all get a lot more done a lot faster and easier.
Dick Nelson
I too am a professional who has delivered multiple very large scale projects--some involving worldwide deployments to dozens of sites and the work of hundreds of people, though I don't claim the title of project manager full time. I've used PMX for at least a couple of YEARS now, since at least version 1.8. It was buggy then, but showed great promise, and I used it when I could for smaller, then bigger and bigger projects as it grew. The developer, Joe Jones, is and always has been the most responsive developer I've ever had the pleasure to do business with. He is very open to suggestions, and is VERY fast with implementing good ones, including some of mine as he has so many of the rest of you. He gives us a terrific product at a very fair price, and one that has uniquely Mac qualities that other good Mac--or Windows--Gantt tools simply lack. I use traditional products primarily when I have to deal with those who lack the flexibility of mind to be able to perceive data in anything except a traditional Gantt format, but the ability of PMX to present more data in the same space while keeping it clear and obvious makes it my own personal favorite.
If you find bugs with PMX, let the developer know, and you'll hear from him in a new release a few days later--and the bugs will likely be fixed. This guy really puts a lot of effort into getting it right. If everybody we deal with daily was as conscientious, we'd all get a lot more done a lot faster and easier.
Dick Nelson
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