Xavier Hovasse has helped organizations run their projects for more than twenty-five years. We have seen where things get stuck, and why. Our software grew out of those findings, one after the other.
Microsoft Project Server shaped project management in many large organizations. But it meant installing, maintaining and upgrading complex servers. Part of the teams' energy went into infrastructure instead of projects.
We started hosting Microsoft Project Server on demand at a time when this was technologically bold. Our customers use Project Server without managing any infrastructure, supported by a team that knows both the technology and project management.
Microsoft Project offers a great deal. Yet in the field we kept seeing the same difficulties: a long learning curve, practices that differed from one team to the next, and schedule errors that went unnoticed.
We developed More With Project, an add-on for Microsoft Project. A ribbon organized around the project life cycle, ready-to-use views that align practices, and a virtual coach that detects anomalies and suggests fixes. For organizations whose foundation is Microsoft Project, and must remain so.
In the field, we kept seeing the same situations: schedules kept up to date for reporting rather than for the people doing the work, workloads that no longer reflect reality, trade-offs that take too long. Organizations had to settle for exhausting rigor or approximate steering.
We started again from a blank page. Henry combines today's technologies with Xavier Hovasse's field experience. It is named after Henry Gantt, the engineer who gave his name to the Gantt chart, and honors what Gantt founded: rigorous planning, made accessible.