My company uses Microsoft Project to manage project timelines, and we use Windchill to manage project documentation and our DHFs.

I would say our project management awareness is medium. I feel like we definitely could use more project management tools. I find that we really only use timelines, but we don’t use all the tools that could help us manage and coordinate timely execution of all the tasks on the timeline. I also often find that we work off of multiple timelines for the same project and then waste time merging them into one overall timeline later on.

I have been involved in projects mainly as a team member, executing on various tasks, and have not had too much project management experience. I feel like the projects that I have worked on and am working on have been poorly managed. However, they were also very challenging projects, with endless technical and manufacturing challenges and setbacks. I have found that tasks which were on the critical path were often overlooked until the last minute and then it was a mad rush to get them done so they didn’t delay the project. Also, with the project that I am working on currently, I think a substantial amount of time gets wasted arguing about and trying to agree on a project timeline that keeps changing.