A Comparatively study for Project Management Software Selection Using Analytic Hierarchy Process Method

Today, project management software is indispensable for organizations to better manage their projects, reduce their costs, shorten schedules and be more responsive to customer demands. Software selection process is a serious issue for future growth and competitiveness of the company; moreover project management software selection also has a insightful effect on the operation or control of the projects to be successful. A very large class of problems in management and administration are known as multi-attribute decision problems. Such problems involve decisions that must take into account large numbers of variables and objectives that cannot always be directly quantified. These problems are rendered even more cumbersome to handle by the fact that the variables and objectives are often in conflict The aim of this research is to focus on selection of project management software using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. The selection criteria is specified by the comparatively study of 3 project management software packages, namely HP-PPM, MS-Project and Primavera. These criteria are evaluated by 5 project managers from different companies for these 3 project management tools. Results have specified that HP-PPM is the most appropriate tool among other two project tools in the scope of the interviewed companies.