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We use MS Project to manage multiple subcontract jobs. We have many workers and resources which need to be managed and distributed properly across our management team and work sites. MS Project has helped us find holes and over-allocations of these things which in turn has made the company more efficient.
- Extremely detailed in planning items.
- Integrates with MS Planner.
- Allows for multiple users to use and manager their jobs.
- Properly manages resources.
- Can be overwhelming to new users.
- Can get lost in the details and miss the big planning picture.
- Requires a lot of training.
February 03, 2020
Microsoft Project is used daily at the company I work for. It is utilized for both our project schedules and our bid schedules. The program allows us to track the project progress, delays, issues, review times, and many other project details. The majority of the time, Microsoft Project is utilized by our project managers. Also, our quality control department and estimating department use the program occasionally.
- Easy to use
- Easy to update / change / manage
- More templates available
- Help section could be more descriptive (use photos)
June 23, 2020
Microsoft Project (MSP) is used for all projects and programs associated with our company. It helps in project planning, managing, and tracking throughout the project life cycle. MSP is the most suitable project planning tool for all medium and large size organizations. MSP is the enterprise software that is part of Microsoft Office and can be easily integrated with other applications such as SharePoint, Jira and Skype. Any certified or practicing project manager know MSP application hence no time or money to be invested for training.
- Microsoft Project is good at producing an effective project plan. We can update the task completion statuses and can pull the updates anytime.
- Creating Gantt Charts through Microsoft Project is easy.
- Microsoft Project may not be suitable for small organizations as the cost of the application is high.
- Project progress tracking is not user friendly.
February 14, 2020
It is being used by both the department level, and also across the whole organization. It is not mandatory to use the MS Project for Project software needs, but it is the main one that is widely used since it is part of Office 365. It addresses the business problem of having a really good, industry-standard, project software solution, that also pretty much does everything you may need in project software package
- One thing it has is good integration with other Microsoft Office products and tools. More than likely most environments will already be using MS products such as Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, so it makes it easier to integrate documents, files, etc. with Project.
- It also offers many good tools for communications, which makes it beneficial for those that are using communication tools such as Outlook and Skype.
- Could be too advanced for those that are new to Project Management software, or those that are just starting out in Project Management. Since MS Project has many tools/features built into the program this can be overwhelming to new users in how to do certain things, or where to find the tool for doing something
- There is a cost to this software, and if buying standalone licenses it can be expensive. It usually doesn't come bundled with the standard Office 365 suite. This is technically considered an add-on, and if you are on a subscription for the software, it can be cheaper.
January 29, 2020
Microsoft Project is a tool primarily used by product management and secondary users include marketing and pro services teams. The tool is intended to enhance project time and collaboration between cross-functional teams. The Gantt chart is used heavily to determine a projects’ critical path and key milestones associated with that path in order to keep a project on time and in the case of pro services especially, on schedule for cost forecasts.
- Microsoft Product integrations, including sharing and reminder notifications.
- Interactive Gantt chart.
- More efficient, reliable project and DevOps integration.
- Training resources for new users.
We use Microsoft Project to track and manage projects across a small team with a lot of requests. My department currently uses this for planning and working with requests and prioritizing based on needs across the organization.
- Graphs
- Timelines
- Crashes ocassionally
- Some graphs get too busy
January 17, 2020
Currently, Microsoft Project is being used by my company to keep track of our company's progress and current tasks. It resolves many issues, one in particular would be the useful time-prediction for current tasks. This software has helped keep my businesses organized and helped become more efficient in productivity and urgency.
- Organizes tasks efficiently
- Predicts length of time for task completion
- Difficult for first-timers
- High price compared to other software
September 17, 2019
Ours is a project driven organization. Microsoft projects is an integral part of our lives. All project plans, work breakdown structures are done in Microsoft Projects. Each Associate in the company is expected to know Microsoft Projects. We use most of the productivity tools from Microsoft, and Microsoft projects integrates well with other tools like Skype. The Microsoft Projects look and feel is similar to Microsoft Excel, so it makes people comfortable from the get-go.
- It is part of Office365 subscription. The look and feel is similar to other tools like excel. Helps in creating project plans, Gantt charts, work break down structures etc.
- Helps in resource allocation and tracking the projects. There is an option to use it to capture timesheets too.
- Helps project managers in producing weekly status reports and integrates well with other collaboration tools like Skype, sharepoint etc.
- The user experience can be improved.
- More tutorials can be provided online. It takes time to master this tool. It can be made much simpler and easy to learn on the fly.
- The tool can be made more catered towards to agile, scrum project management methodologies.
Currently, at our company, Microsoft Projects is used during the estimating phase while
planning timeline and phasing of a project, and by Project Management when
needed to create and revise schedules and manpower to see where and when
resources will be used. The program allows us to plan accordingly and see where
along with our schedule, we have a hole or time to make up if issues present themselves.
planning timeline and phasing of a project, and by Project Management when
needed to create and revise schedules and manpower to see where and when
resources will be used. The program allows us to plan accordingly and see where
along with our schedule, we have a hole or time to make up if issues present themselves.
- Planning
- Scheduling
- Not easy to learn
December 19, 2019
Microsoft Project is being used at Duquesne Light to manage project resources and timelines across the entire enterprise. Project allows us to visualize and map out the critical path of our projects, identify over-allocation of resources, and adjust or project timelines as needed. It is a good tool and integrates well with the rest of the Microsoft Office suite.
- Lots of templates.
- Can be used offline since it's a desktop application.
- It's an expensive license.
- Doesn't work well if you open a newer file with an older version of Project.
Microsoft Project is a project management tool which helps maintain the agile methodology of project development amongst the team members and company. It makes it easy to monitor developers and assign them work accordingly using Microsoft Project. It is the best way in which software development can be carried out to make most out of the resources you have.
- Following Agile Methodology
- Assgining Work
- Tracking Resources
- Documentation for Software Developed
- Requires better documentation
- Hard for naive or new developers
- UI improvements
We use Microsoft Project to schedule and manage our company's ongoing projects. Its builtin templates makes our work easier. The Gantt charts and project health tracker allow us to track and understand the project.
Our whole organization uses the same project management but in a different set of groups, depends on their departments and project groups. It allows us to understand the project and cause the collision of various projects.
Due to this, our teams can track their projects and follow the deadline. It has increased the project success.
It integrates with all other Microsoft tools, which helps us to save time and money.
- Gantt chart tracker
- It integrates with other Microsoft tools.
- Project health tracking
- Templates
- Little expensive
- Required depth learning
I use Microsoft Project to plan and execute IT projects at the customer facility I work at. This keeps track of in-house projects that are done at the facility level and do not require higher-level planning. This allows me to keep track of everything associated with these projects and serves to meet customer needs.
- Plan project tasks.
- Execute project tasks.
- Provides management tracking of project completion.
- The clunky interface is occasionally hard to use.
- Help articles are not always clear and concise.
- Feature integration is lacking.
January 17, 2020
We are using Microsoft Project to manage customer projects. Microsoft Project is being used in several areas. It is used during the planning phase. Also, it is used during the project execution phase to prepare weekly status reports, to track the project activities. Normally, the project planner is responsible for updating the project activities.
- Project Gantt View
- Dependencies between activities
- The project reports
- The print preview functionality
January 17, 2020
It is used to manage projects.
- Resource allocation
- Time tracking
- Using it fully can be time intensive.
September 20, 2019
Microsoft Project was a great tool for us when we used it to manage resources, personnel, and progress for a project we were working on last year. This was only used in one department but it was a huge help in keeping everything on schedule and flowing as it should.
- Helped everyone involved with the project manage their time to maximize what was getting done.
- Saved on money as this product was very reasonable to some other programs that were looked at.
- Helped cut the overall time of the project down by 2 weeks. We budgeted for 5-6 weeks and finished at just over 4.
- Getting everyone involved was a little tricky at first but once we got going it was great.
- It does feel a little dated and hasn't kept up with what some of the other software seemed to be offering.
September 18, 2019
Microsoft Project is currently being used by all of the project managers across our company. It's a great tool for controlling and monitoring projects, as well as assign resources to each phase and activity of every project. With the use of Microsoft Project Server, the files can be shared in a collaborative environment.
- Great for keeping track of time and resources of projects.
- Can calculate the overall percentage for each project.
- The Gantt Chart automatically updates.
- Sometimes the time calculation for the activities could be a little tricky.
- The resource assignment sometimes can be troublesome.
- It requires a lot of machine resources.
December 19, 2019
We just use MS Project to create Gantt charts and I would say that's all what we use, I know that MS Project can do much more but in my scenario we use it only for Gantt and to exchange Gantt charts with other companies, this was the installed version on my computer.
- Gantt charts.
- Resource management.
- Collaboration.
- Integration with other software.
August 13, 2019
Microsoft Project was for many years the goto platform for project management at eSilicon. Most of the managers from different departments were using it to manage their projects: tasks breakdown and assignment, resource management, tracking tasks progress, etc. While it does the job well, it also has some flaws and things to improve. Due to this, there are many other tools that gained market share in the last several years and will continue to do so even more.
- You can manage any size project and complexity.
- The visuals of the timeline and gantt charts.
- The way task dependencies work and the whole plan gets updated for any change you do.
- It is so easy to mess up a complex project plan by a simple change and can take hours to fix.
- It is lacking the collaboration that is so needed these days. You need to use Project Server for that.
- The cost is a differentiator for many start-ups selling project management tools.
September 25, 2019
This software is used in the project department of the school to efficiently manage projects and plan tasks for projects to be carried out in order to achieve successful projects for a long time.
- Organize a job
- Efficiently manage the resources of a project
- Detect vulnerabilities in a project
- It only works on Windows platforms, without freeware
January 27, 2020
Microsoft Project is typically only used by those who are project managers. It is not as intuitive as some other tools out there, but once you get used to using it I think it is a very helpful tool. Across the organization we have a number of different PMO’s and I’m not sure they all use Project. Some use Excel, Confluence, Trello, Jira, etc. We use Project to track all of the tasks that need to occur by who, what sequence they need to occur in, progress, complete, and timelines.
- Timelines.
- Calculations.
- Easier to learn all of the capabilities it can do.
- % compete does not shade in Gantt unless you manually add that line style.
January 24, 2020
Microsoft Project is widely used in the organization for managing and monitoring different projects. There are multiple departments who use this software, and as it is easy to use and understand for the general audience, its use has been growing. This is used for medium to long term planning of complex projects where more resource and cost allocation is required.
- Microsoft Project has an easy user interface and easy to edit documents.
- It provides good visuals to prepare Gantt charts and define critical paths.
- More complex assignments are not much flexible.
- It's not a very EPC friendly software.
We haven't had to use the support services for this software as much, as this is widely used in our industries. However, the help section is pretty useful, and the online steps listed along with the examples are very easy to follow. Anything you type on google, a related support document can easily be located with the solution.
January 16, 2020
Microsoft Project is quite popular in my organization for defining the timeline and deliverables. This tool is really useful to manage the projects that involve cross functions and systems. It also enable us to track the status of the project and risks around the activities. It is used mostly by the department for various projects which has a huge engagement of resources and needs a detailed layout of projects. It usually helps us to understand resource allocation and defining the planning schedule. It also helps us to understand the risks associated with the project.
- Resource allocation.
- Project tracking.
- Expensive license - Online it is available as free with Microsoft Office but the offline license for desktop use is too expensive.
- The online version of Microsoft Project does not have Gantt charts and project tasks like the offline version does.
January 16, 2020
First, let me tell you Microsoft Project isn't easy to use, you will need to know what you are doing. The truth is it's the tools are straightforward. It's the planning that's hard. Microsoft attempts to make things easy by providing templates, but I still have a challenge planning. The thing I love the most, however, is that it makes the rest of my business life easier and increases my efficiency. In case you may be wondering Microsoft Project is a tool used for project planning and project management, it allows you to visualize and document the workflow.
- Agile integration also is known as Sprint.
- Affords the user/planner/business greater efficiency and time management.
- Not easy to learn even when using the templates.
January 15, 2020
Microsoft Project is a great software tool for project planning and budgeting. It is used primarily by the Operations and IT Departments to work on project tasks to ensure that timelines and deadlines are met. It addresses the immediate need for project planning and coordinating to ensure projects are being completed.
- Microsoft Project provides all the typical options you'd want to do in a project management app.
- The Gantt chart bars are interactive; therefore, as you adjust these, the information inside the cells update simultaneously.
- Microsoft Project can take a long time to learn due to all of its functionality and even longer to master.
- The feature-rich application has different ways of doing the same thing, and it might get a bit tricky for some users.
Microsoft Project Scorecard Summary
Feature Scorecard Summary
What is Microsoft Project?
Microsoft Project is a project management software. It provides core project management and planning functionality, including agile workflow tools like Gantt charts. The software provides prebuilt workflow and report templates for rapid deployment. Project also enables resource management and planning and integrates with BI tools and other 3rd party programs. It can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise.
Categories: Project Management
Microsoft Project Integrations
Microsoft Project Competitors
Microsoft Project Pricing
- Does not have featureFree Trial Available?No
- Does not have featureFree or Freemium Version Available?No
- Does not have featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?No
- Entry-level set up fee?No
| Edition | Pricing Details | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Project Plan 1 | $10 | per user/per month |
| Project Plan 3 | $30 | per user/per month |
| Project Plan 5 | $55 | per user/per month |
Microsoft Project Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems: | Windows |
| Mobile Application: | No |