The open source management software has been adopted throughout the development as benchmarking tool.The application of such software will allow improvement, and control participants performance and achievement of the tasks entrusted to them.Such as faculty task scheduling and coordination on tasks.Also,some software components will be added and reused. The system will also allow the project management to benefit from these reports to continuously assess individuals, tasks, and refine management decisions for present and future projects.The study is also relied on an open source project management software (ODOO) in planning, implementation, and the following up of an academic quality accreditation project of the department of (MIS) in the College of Business (King Khalid University, KSA,2018-2020). The system will also enablethe work team to share tasks information andfollow their status during the lifecycle of these tasks. This mechanism will facilitate the system process via planning, managing, and evaluating the project team activities to ensure that the project is running according to the time and financial plans. This research aims at developing a software mechanism forscheduling and tracking the status of pre-planned tasks using an open sourceto achieve projects in government institutions based on project management theory. Furthermore, most of the respondents preferred using the traditional process rather than software to schedule by hand instead of using Primavera and Microsoft project.
Consequently, the most of respondents preferred to use Excel Microsoft for managing project because of its availability and easy in using, on other hand, the respondent’s knowledge regarding the most advantages program, the study revealed that 76% of the respondents they do not know which program is best one and the most of respondents suffer from lack of experience and lack of training opportunity to tackle and learning primavera and Microsoft project. The result of the analysis the questionnaire data revealed that 78% of respondents were reluctant to use Primavera and Microsoft project in construction projects in Erbil governorate. Consequently, to developed criteria to compare primavera with Microsoft project, and to investigate the current situation of using Primavera and Microsoft project in Erbil governorate. This paper provides a comparison study to currently available project management tools and assessing Primavera and Microsoft project, to identify the most popular planning project tools.
For planning and scheduling work a huge amount of paperwork is required, which makes the construction management task more complicated. Planning and scheduling has an important role in construction projects because of the increasing complexities in the field of project management comprises, pre-construction planning in order to schedule the activities sequence, defining labor tasks, construction methods and assigning the resources and responsibilities.