What is Project Management?
While writing marketing literature, I was trying to figure out what ProjectPipe’s product category is. So far I’ve been
saying that we do “project management thru-the-web”. But it’s a little confusing to me because we integrate with
MS Project, which claims to be a “project management program”. If you have MS Project, why would you need us?
Both do project management. Is ProjectPipe just MS Project on the web?
The simple answer is no, we are not MS Project on the web. We are not interested in rendering
Gantt charts on the web. Some companies are doing that
– good luck to ‘em! (Though if SVG ever takes off then maybe I’d do it. 
ProjectPipe has a very different focus than MS Project — both products have mutually exclusive and complementary
features. ProjectPipe tries to cover all the major areas of project management defined
in PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge).
However, MS Project just covers task and resource scheduling. Admittedly, that covers a lot of ground — budget
over time, resource levelling, etc. But it doesn’t cover: issue tracking, source control/asset management,
risk management, requirement tracking, etc.
It would be nice if there was another phrase besides “project management”, something like “project lifecycle management”
but I think we’re stuck with this ambiguous phrase.