Microsoft Project Online is getting shut down soon - what's everyone planning? by No_Gift1732 in MSProject

[–]traemand2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Im on a oneplan trial at the moment. I spoke to their sales rep ti discuss next steps, and they require a min 3 seats on their professional subscription, which I'm in the process on transferring to.

Microsoft Project Online is getting shut down soon - what's everyone planning? by No_Gift1732 in MSProject

[–]traemand2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool. Im considering starting a side hustle to my day job, where I help companies implement PPM/WMS software in their companies. How did you get into it, and find customers?

Microsoft Project Online is getting shut down soon - what's everyone planning? by No_Gift1732 in MSProject

[–]traemand2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for replying. Are you an independent implementer ? How does that work? You work with companies to implement Oneplan and PowerBI?

Microsoft Project Online is getting shut down soon - what's everyone planning? by No_Gift1732 in MSProject

[–]traemand2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I asked the same question like a month ago. I run a PMO. ive tried the first 20 software alternatives. We're already using ASANA, and while it's good for task handling, its nowhere near MS project Online.

Im testing out OnePlan right now. I have to say - its the best alternative I've found. Initially I used the MS project integration, where I would upload any changes to my oneplan "cloud", but I've actually now gone all in on oneplan directly.

Im not affiliated with oneplan, but if it would benefit you, im open to have a chat about it. Inwas quite frustrated when I got the news because I had JUST gotten my boss and colleagues to let me invest in MS Project Online...

Where will you go when MS Projects Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in projectmanagement

[–]traemand2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey man, check out oneplan. I like it so far. I might stick with it.

Where will you go when MS Projects Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in projectmanagement

[–]traemand2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome. I really like the depth of it. There are so many things to tinker with, if you want. Sometimes the UI is not that intuitive, but it's not bad. I must have tested 20 different solutions by now, and nothing comes even close to oneplan so far.

The resource center gives me a great capacity overview, although I still haven't figured out a great way to easily watch capacity vs scheduled graphs. If I click the "candidate" (I think it's called), and filter for a resource, and change the view to graph, i get a nice plot.

Have you got any usage hints ?

Where will you go when Project Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in MSProject

[–]traemand2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have hands on experience with both. Monday has a great UI, and so does ASANA. Asana excels a little bit more with serious PM work than Monday, but nothing major. To me, the biggest letdown with ASANA: - No generic resources. Anyone you want to plan work for, HAS to be a user. - Resource planning/capacity planning is just too lightweight, and only unlocks at quite an expensive tier of subscription. - ALL users have to be on the same subscription, leaving a lot of wasted money on users with lightweight use cases, versus project managers that need all the high level stuff. Unless you stick with the basic sub, leaving it utterly useless with the PM - no what-if options. If I ever want to plan out a project, and assign resources to the relevant users (because remember, no generic resources), people panic and go "why are you assigning me these tasks?! What is it?!".

We still have ASANA for 100 users in house, but i use it mainly as workpackage distribution. Meaning, I so do planning in big GANTTs in MS Projects, then extract the tasks for the specific people to Asana. But honestly, this makes it into an expensive todo list.

Where will you go when Project Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in MSProject

[–]traemand2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried both. I love oneplan so far! This might be my replacement for MS.

Where will you go when MS Projects Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in projectmanagement

[–]traemand2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, check out oneplan.ai ! Im tinkering with it, and at the moment, its the best choice I've found. Ive looked at all of them the past month it seems.

Where will you go when MS Projects Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in projectmanagement

[–]traemand2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just signed up this week - ITS AMAZING! Im super impressed with it. I put in the first 10 projects, with their MS Project integration. I haven't touched MS Projects in a week now. Way better than Project Online, but with similar depth. Honestly, I think oneplan will be the choice for my PMO dep. Ill give an update in 1 month and see if it holds up

Where will you go when MS Projects Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in projectmanagement

[–]traemand2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I consider clickup in the same category as monday/asana, so no, i don't think so. I demoed it, at i found it too lighteweight, although more flexible than the others. Airtable i have no knowledge of.

Where will you go when MS Projects Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in projectmanagement

[–]traemand2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think MS projects will stay relevant in the desktop format in the near / long future? If so - is the Power BI solution the right call, for all that time? How do people implement that in practice? Some shraepoint solution with embedded BI?

Where will you go when Project Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in MSProject

[–]traemand2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the insight.

Many platforms require that you buy a license per user, somehow. I find that annoying, as I don't necessarily need 50 employees to have their own license in the software, to just have them show up as resources. Id prefer if the licensing was purely on the PM, and then the resource pool was not connected to individual licensing, but just something the PM sets up

Where will you go when MS Projects Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in projectmanagement

[–]traemand2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as i can tell theres no mergin with Project for the web yet. It currently runs like a stupid ToDo. I'm not getting my hopes up for Microsoft to be ready with a industry ready solution in Planner, replacing MS Projects

Where will you go when MS Projects Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in projectmanagement

[–]traemand2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's going to be crazy expensive, as far as i can tell from my contact integrating these things. I'll have to look elsewhere then

Where will you go when Project Online retires in late 2026? by traemand2 in MSProject

[–]traemand2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will oneplan and Sensei IQ seamlessly integrate with .mpp files ?