Project X is easy to use and boasts tight integration with Mac applications such as iCal and Address Book, as well as powerful network-collaboration features that tap into OS X’s built-in Personal Web Sharing feature. Marware’s Project X 1.0.1, a promising newcomer to the Mac project-management realm, embraces the standard approach established by Microsoft Project, but it also provides an alternative approach to organizing and tracking projects in a flowchart-like Network view (also known as a PERT diagram) that’s likely to appeal to more visually oriented users.
Microsoft Project has essentially defined the category, with tools for generating Gantt charts that depict project milestones as rounded rectangles stretched along a horizontal timeline, so you can track tasks to completion with colored progress bars. Mention project-management software to most Mac users and their first thoughts-if they have any at all-are likely to be of a non-Mac application.
