Item: Smartsheet
Rating: 8
Author: Michael Quinn

Overall Satisfaction

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used by selected individuals to provide a more collaborative project management tool than MS Project

Pros and Cons

Pros

Collaboration
Recording notes and discussions to tasks
Ease of use

Cons

Dependancies
Offline Access

Return on Investment

Better collaboration internally
Lower costs than MS Project

I selected SmartSheet for it's Ease of use, collaboration features, ability to store discussions in tasks, ability to assign and email collaborators for updates. Downside being it is not available offline, so working on an airplane/train etc is not possible.

Likelihood to Renew

Offline access is needed badly. Cost for personal use is a little high for me if the company does not approve the product for usage.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend it for smaller / simpler projects that don't have too many dependencies and interlinked tasks. I found that if you remove/add dependencies or adjust dates the related tasks can get out of sync. Think it would be more suited to small companies/teams that value the collaborative features of smartsheet.

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Better than MS Project for most situations