Planning and executing complex plan-driven projects in the real world became far easier in the early 1990’s. What happened then to make it so were two things: PMI’s PMBOK® Guide and Microsoft’s MS Project.

MS Project was the first major project scheduling platform. Its programming – based on project management constructs including “task list” and “critical path analysis” – enabled project managers and teams to do planning, tracking, and forecasting of scope, schedule and budget, flexibly, quickly, and at any level of granularity.

Project scheduling platforms have evolved a great deal since MS Project. Today, the work they facilitate might be called anything from “resource management” to “business planning”. This video introduces (and hypes) five platforms that were popular mid-pandemic (2022) and look to have some future as well.

Btw, a couple of platforms similar to these five but not listed here are Click Up and Notion.