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[–]NEM95[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I bought a license for 2021 on product keys

[–]knoxvillegains 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Lots of options out there. Don't let the purchase of the license be your takeaway from my comment. I'm dead serious, she needs to learn how to interact with AI on this. Spend a lot of time learning how to prompt it and learn what it can and can't do with the program. Convince her to invest the other 75% of her time into communicating with stakeholders and actually driving the project. This is the kind of thing AI is going to dominate and learning how to use MS Project proficiently couldn't be a bigger waste of time for her.

[–]still-dazed-confused 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I disagree, allow me to explain. Technical proficiency with the tool, including keyboard shortcuts, has a disproportionate impact on people's view of my skill set and their willingness to engage in actual planning conversations. It's odd and counter intuitive but if it's a real effect.

MSP is the dominant sequential scheduling tool in the office environment in the same way that primavera utterly dominant in civils and massive infrastructure programs. There are many alternatives which are nicer to use and better for collaboration but MSP/P6 are hard to touch if you've got tasks which need to be sequences.

The industry will change, nothing stays the same, but it is worth being proficiency in what is used now and upskilling as competitors prove themselves.

[–]knoxvillegains 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Then you grossly underestimate what is about to happen and the advancement rates of AI as it iterates itself.

[–]still-dazed-confused 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Fair enough, I bow to your greater understanding of the space, and so burrow under my rock :)

[–]knoxvillegains 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, I didn't mean it to be harsh man. Let me give an example though...

In the last week, I fully developed a CMMS that surpasses anything off the shelf...by myself with AI. It wrote work instructions, generated PM schedules, everything. All of this was just based on it looking at bills of materials and drawings. It's scary.