ProjectEVN: 5 Years of managing construction complexity with GanttPRO
“It’s already in our blood, we have to have a Gantt chart as part of our workflow. It’s basically the way we start the projects.”
A story about bringing more structure, transparency, and easier stakeholder alignment to complex construction projects with GanttPRO.
Company overview
Company: ProjectEVN
Role interviewed: Artur Ter-Simonyan, founder
Project types: full-cycle construction projects
External pressures: multiple stakeholders involved, client scrutiny, approvals from external institutions, complexity of the construction field
Problems hinted at: from client side – weak Excel support, approval-related bottlenecks, delivery deadlines
Summary
Company Background
What does your company focus on?
ProjectEVN is a construction management company working across Armenia. The team also handles some international initiatives, covering everything connected with designing, managing, and delivering construction projects from scratch. Their key focus is to make sure each initiative stays on time, within budget, and meets highest industry standards.
Artur Ter-Simonyan, ProjectEVN’s founder, shared how GanttPRO is integrated into the workflow and supports it at every stage.
“Back in 2020, we tried a couple of tools, GanttPRO was the only option without any headache.”
Struggle
How did your approach look before GanttPRO?
Artur discovered GanttPRO in 2020, when one of their clients needed a very clearly defined timeline, and since then, it has been implemented as a default tool. “Back in 2020, we tried a couple of tools, GanttPRO was the only option without any headache.”
Today, the tool is used consistently as a strategic mechanism by executives and by 5 leading project managers. As the company and its client work within a shared infrastructure, GanttPRO was also introduced to the client, who had previously relied only on Excel spreadsheets that did not provide enough project transparency. “If you can go to the 10th floor with the elevator, will you ever use stairs?”.
Solution
One of the biggest advantages that stands out for ProjectEVN is the ability to share project views with clients and partners through a link, so stakeholders can check progress without constantly asking for updates. For early-stage proposals, the team exports timelines as PDFs, and once the process starts – switch to live shared links for ongoing visibility.
“If you want to know where the project is or what’s happening next week, just log in and click the link and it will take you there.”Artur also highlighted Dashboard as a strong reporting feature. “Once we had dispute with the client about the work done, I showed him the number of tasks created, completed and in progress, and the progress became obvious. So for reporting your dashboard is really good."
Among many PM tools that offer a wide variety of functionalities, GanttPRO stands out for being intuitive and easy to navigate. Artur put his impressions into a metaphor: “It's like you go to the elevator and you know which one you can select to go to. It's the same with GanttPro. It's intuitive and very easy.”
Impact
What does your work look like now with GanttPRO?
“It’s already in our blood, we have to have Gantt chart. It’s basically the way we start the projects.”
GanttPRO helped to move from less flexible planning approaches to a more transparent and collaborative way of running construction projects. Keeping multiple stakeholders aligned, communicating the status easily, and giving clients direct visibility into what is happening became an irreplaceable part of the workflow. Now it’s such a natural part of ProjectEVN’s process that timelines in GanttPRO are now built into how projects begin and move forward.