Project Managers that are used to Microsoft Project would be interested to know if there are any microsoft project like management tools on the iPhone or iPod touch.

I believe project management should be done on a device with a larger screen as the key to planning is viewing Gantt Charts and Calendars and on iPhone’s 3.5 inch screen it will be a crumblesome experience. However, on a Archos Android device and the upcoming iTablet, we might have something there.

Nevertheless there are 2 softwares that falls into this category.

iGantt Chart

This is a simple Gantt chart application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. This will cost you 0.99 and really it is only good for simple purposes. As a project manager it is probably not robust enough for you.

10453 gantt4 Gantt Chart by Baie Design Limited

10453 gantt1 Gantt Chart by Baie Design Limited

Certainly not recommended.

Projects

Now this is a more robust application. certainly looks like a project management app with Gantt Chart and all but it does have serious problems in that task dependancies and resource allocations are missing. It cost 6.99 so its pretty expensive in app store world as well.

projects-gantt-portrait-1

Here is a really good review of Projects. It will show u what it can do and what it cannot do.

Conclusion

We haven’t arrived yet. Productivity GTD style on an iPhone have come leaps and bounds but if you want something that you are able to review as a project manager with dependency and nested subtasking, you are asking for too much now.

Lets hope some great company actually develops one.