Yes, absolutely. I think it can feel pointless when it's just a few people or less. At that size it may just be easier and more effective to wing it, or keep a todo list. However, when you start involving more people than you can talk to easily, the work starts to pull apart into an incoherent mess. For work to be well coordinated at scale, one person needs to be able to hand off to another person. One team needs to…
Thanks for this perspective. I hadn't really considered large scale usage. In my class the team sizes are just 4 members so it feels quite pointless for this scale. But know thinking about it, it makes sense to have a project management system in place.
The reality is that budgeting and roadmapping is roughly an annual process. At that time scale and with sufficient people scale, management will need to illustrate how they will be spending millions of dollars and the sequence of activities.
Gantt charts are often the defacto communication method because people from many skills backgrounds easily understand them.