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Australian Submarine Corporation
"On time, on budget, on Micro Planner!"
Managing Director
Ball Aerospace Space & Systems Engineering Division
"Defense downsizing requires the Aerospace/Defense industry to become more productive with less. We have found that Micro Planner allows us to both save money and be more effective by moving our project management systems from minis to PCs. With the tools on their desktops, engineers are not only up to date on project status, but can brainstorm solutions interactively when problems occur. The service and support has been outstanding as well. We recently had a C/SCSC validation review. When I called MPI, they were familiar with C/SCSC requirements and immediately put me in touch with other users in our industry with C/SCSC reporting requirements. The C/SCSC review was completed successfully."
Senior Business Analyst
Kevin Gebert
303 939-6438
Bell Northern Research - Ottawa
"Managers use Micro Planner on Macintosh while engineers use it on their UNIX-based work stations. Hundreds of managers and engineers have been trained in the fundamentals of project management and the use of Micro Planner and the results have been dramatic. We've cut our time to market, increased quality and can better meet our customers' changing requirements ."
Manager Systems Administration
Bell Northern Research - Richardson, TX
"We've set an aggressive time table for achieving ISO 9000 certification and Micro Planner is playing a key role in achieving certificaton. We've been able to document our processes, provide for sufficient resources to meet objectives and track our improved effectiveness. Having file compatible versions available on Macintosh, UNIX and Windows platforms is a big plus in allowing us to coordinate and communicate with all the diverse contributors within our organization. It's always impressive to have the CEO of an organization take the time to visit your site and understand how you are using the tool and where you want to go with it. Tim Breen understands our challenges and I'm confident our relationship with MPI will continue far into the future"
Manager, Systems Administration
BSW Architects
"As one of the largest and fastest growing architectural firms, we've got hundreds of projects and professionals to manage including relationships with Marriott, Tandy, HomeBase and Wal-Mart. MPI has provided the methodology, software and training that has allowed BSW to pioneer new technology-driven approaches to commercial construction."
Partner
Lockheed Idaho Technologies - Environmental Restoration
"Cleanup of the Idaho National Enginnering Labs (a site of nuclear research since the 1940s) is a massive undertaking under the auspices of the Department of Energy. We moved from a mainframe based project management system to Micro Planner to put the responsibility and ownership of our many projects back into the hands of our cost account managers. We found Micro Planner had the power of mainframe based systems, but was easy enough for our cost account managers to use. MPI trained over 150 managers in the basics of project management and the use of Micro Planner on both Macintosh and PC platforms. MPI also developed customized training manuals and worked in partnership with us to meet our unique DOD reporting requirements. Over the last five years we have seen many of our enhancement requests incorporated into Micro Planner, and have maintained an ongoing dialog with MPI concerning our future requirements."
Staff Engineer/Scientist
Jude Baker
208 526-6778
Hewlett-Packard
"Since we have adopted MPI's tools and methodolgy, we haven't missed a delivery date. The tools are the best I've used, but the methodology is every bit as important."
Program Manager
Hughes Aircraft
"MPI's software and methodology enabled us to cut our launch cycle in half."
Manager, Launch Systems
InfoWorld Buyer's Assurance Seal
"Packed with features."
Lawrence Livermore Labs
"We knew the quality of MPI's project management software tools from others at the Labs who had been using them for more than 10 years. But we didn't fully appreciate their service capabilities until we came across a particularly difficult government reporting requirement. While our inquiries to competitors went unanswered, MPI quickly put together a package that included swapping out Microsoft Project for Micro Planner, providing on-site technical assistance to assist in the transfer of information from Micro Planner to our internal systems and training our entire team in the fundamentals of project management and the use of Micro Planner. They have continued to be there for us and we consider them a long term partner in our success."
Resource Manager, Environmental Restoration
MacWorld Editor's Choice
"Best balance between high-end features and ease of use. It has smooth operating performance and the best reporting capability."
MacUser's highest rating (4 mice) of any project management software
"Solid tool for all phases of project management. Excellent custom reports and support."
MacWeek
Micro Planner X-Pert's features make it comparable in power to the most powerful PC applications, more capable than many workstation appilications, and more powerful and easier to use than MacProject, Project Scheduler and Microsoft Project".
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace West - Gold Quality Award for Highest Quality and Delivery Performance
"We've looked at them all over the years and Micro Planner and MPI are consistently the best in project management."
Manager, Program Planning & Control
Dr. John Malpass
310 522-4244
Motorola
"Delinquency of new product development has declined, quality has improved and Micro Planner has made Concurrent Engineering a reality."
Product Director
Northrop - Robert J. Collier Award
For MPI's role in the "design, development, production and flight testing of the B-2 aircraft."
National Aeronautic Association
Northern Telecom
"When you buy MPI software, you are buying person-decades of real world project management expertise."
Program Manager
Larry Kellogg
919 991-4880
Personal Computer World
"Micro Planner is the Rolls Royce of project management software. It oozes class from the the fancy media box to the four hardcover manuals."
"Software on Review" radio program - Best Project Management Software
In an interview with MPI's CEO, Tim Breen, Mr. Sydnor commented, "I was amazed how painless and easy it was to conduct multi-project scheduling and brainstorm solutions. The update and tracking tools, resource driven scheduling and earned value costing offer power, features and flexibility that are unmatched..."
Radio host and software reviewer
Randolph Sydnor
Stanford Medical Hospital
"Prior to adopting MPI's methodology and software, our record on software conversions was pretty dismal. Since adopting Micro Planner, we haven't missed a target date."
Director of Management Systems
Vic Arnold
415 723-0811
Taligent
"Taligent's charter is to develop the future joint Apple/IBM object oriented operating system, probably the largest C++ programming effort in history. Taligent chose Micro Planner X-Pert because it provided the power we needed to manage and plan a project of this magnitude and complexity, but was also friendly enough for our engineers to use easily on their desktops."
Project Coordinator
U.C. Davis Hospital & Medical Center
"We had a dozen software conversion projects either underway or about to begin which affected virtually every aspect of our operation. The software vendor was giving us completion dates that weren't being met, and we really didn't have any confidence in the revised dates they were giving us. MPI provided the framework, trained our staff and supplied the software tools so that we could get a realistic asessment of how the projects interrelated and impacted our staffing requirements. The entire hospital and medical center community were able to agree on a realistic plan for managing all of these projects. The target completion dates were more than a year later than what we had been told by the software vendor, but we knew it was realistic and what we needed to do in order to achieve the conversion dates. The process of collaboratively working through various options allowed all the stakeholders to proactively address and resolve key issues. As an Executive Steering Committee member, I felt we had regained control and reassured the hospital and medical school stakeholders."
Executive Steering Committee Member
VLSI Technology
"X-Pert is the best... a really effective tool for planning and communicating with the team."
Planning Control Engineer