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September 17, 2019
Most Popular Project Management Tool
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.
August 08, 2019
Agile Development Made Easy
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
I work on a process optimization team within my workspace. It is an administrative job where we perform process audits (for customers), recommend people, process, and technology changes for those customers, and then implement accepted solutions based on our recommendations. It is a relatively small team that has three major components: strategy, implementation, and continuous improvement. We utilize a variety of project management tools in order to successfully carry out our recommendations for completion. Microsoft Project is one tool that has been widely adapted, not only across our team but across most administrative areas in our company. Our business is heavily integrated within the Microsoft ecosystem and Project is one tool that used to achieve our business objectives.
- Being a Microsoft product, Project integrates extremely well into the Microsoft family of applications!
- Furthermore, the user interface is similar to other Microsoft applications. Therefore, there is a valuable familiarity out of the box.
- Project is incredibly detail-oriented and always receiving valuable updates. Project Online is now the cloud-based version of Project.
- Scheduling works really well for the most part. One can be extremely detailed with Gannt charts and other project management metrics!
- Remote work can be challenging - as Project must be downloaded to a specific computer.
- Upgrading to the top of the line version can feel like a requirement. There is a lot of functionality that is not available unless in the most expensive pay-tiers.
- Microsoft Project can be extremely expensive on a per user basis. Other tools can be much more cost-effective - especially for more basic project management needs.
I used Microsoft Project to develop the framework of all our projects, and to track their progress and resources throughout implementation. We typically had about 20 projects running at any one time, so it was useful to see everything in one place. While we used a ticketing system for the day-to-day stuff, Project worked better for long-term, per-planned operations.
- Gantt Charts: Every project manager's favorite thing, MS Project does this very well. A Gantt chart keeps everything in a project timeline visible, and in Project, you can drill down to look at resources, costs, and a myriad of other things. It's also very easy to rearrange items as necessary, either by dragging them around or opening them and manually entering data.
- Resource Management: Project allows you to set up resources, either as individuals or with type of work (e.g., Bob Smith or Network Engineer I). Within those resources, you can set up hours of availability, when overtime kicks in, costs, and a myriad of other useful items. Then, when you assign them tasks, the software calculates the time needed or how much extra it will cost if you need a resource to work longer on a particular piece.
- Multiple Projects: With the resource pool and other elements shared between projects, managing multiple projects becomes easier. Project will warn you if resource is over-scheduled, and show which projects that resource is being used on. It'll also show conflicts.
- Integration: Since this is a Microsoft product, it integrates very well with other Microsoft products, especially those in the Office suite like Excel. That allows you to, for example, export the Gantt chart to a spreadsheet to send to stakeholders, or link it into a Word document.
- Time Management: Tied into the Gantt and Resource pieces, Project lets you set prerequisites and linked work, so even if you have to adjust steps to deal with scheduling or change management, Project will keep everything organized. It will automatically re-adjust dates and milestones as things are shifted.
- Expertise Needed: The software is not always easy to use or intuitive. I took several Project courses, on top of my project management certifications, to understand the software better. While all the elements are there for anyone familiar with standard project management processes, it takes experience and training to really get the best out of the software.
- Collaboration: Project does not work well with multiple users simultaneously. There's no real-time updating, and if we had multiple project managers, there'd be no way to work together on the same projects.
- Price: Project is expensive, largely due to it being an industry standard.
October 01, 2019
Best bang for your buck
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.
September 20, 2019
A Great Software That's Worth the Money!
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
A friendly PM software at a good price!
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.
August 13, 2019
The former reference software for project management
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.
June 22, 2019
Great for the novice who isn't ready for P6
We use it as a quick and dirty backup to P6 scheduling software. We have an in-house scheduling department that uses P6 to schedule our projects. However, for teams looking for a quick schedule that need turnaround when the scheduling team is unavailable or when it just makes sense to make a project themselves (ourselves), we can use Microsoft Project as a little more user-friendly quick option.
- Schedules and Logic.
- User-friendly.
- Easy to learn interface, similar to all Microsoft products, so familiar to most new users.
- The overall look of the schedules produced is a little lackluster. There are not a whole lot of customization options, and to the construction field, it is quickly recognizable that the schedule was produced in Project. It's not a bad thing, but not the industry standard. I think it would be better to design the output to follow P6 just for credibility. It almost looks a little bit "cartoonish" or juvenile. Now I understand that MS design is certainly "better looking," but this is simply in comparison to the industry standard for credibility purposes.
September 25, 2019
The best software for project monitoring
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
September 18, 2019
Microsoft Project continues to meet our large organization's project management requirements.
Along with Microsoft Excel, Project is being used for project management across the entire organization to track projects, work streams within projects, start and end dates, assigned tasks to users, milestones, progress and changes to scope. It has been used for a number of years and some of us had practice with it from prior consulting days.
- Visually shows gantt charts of progress in project workstreams
- Shows the elapsed time for tasks to be completed
- Visually identifies the team members assigned to their work streams and if they are behind or on target
- Seems overly complicated for users sometimes in using Project and its functionalities
- Hard to share files for those folks who do not have MS Project, and then have to print out for them
- Can be confusing since it looks and feels like MS Excel
October 28, 2019
Microsoft Project Review
We use Microsoft Project within our development, IT, business operations and sales departments. Our development and IT departments use MS project extensively to plan new feature upgrades, issue resolutions, build-out projects and plan future projects. Our sales department primarily used MS project to plan to acquire new clients and sell additional features to our existing client base.
- Task management is what MS project is made for and it has a vast array of templates for practically any industry.
- Great and assigning tasks to departments, teams, and individuals.
- Being able to track company resources and how they are being utilized.
- MS Project has great integration into the entire MS corporate product line.
- Then need to improve the UI to be more user-friendly for less technical users.
- More free online resources so users can train and improve there MS Project skills.
- Integration into more 3rd party software providers that are none MS.
August 30, 2019
Microsoft Project is a time saver.
It is being used by various individuals. It is nice to collaborate on schedules with each other. I also use it to figure manpower and durations based on manpower. I still feel like I'm very new at using Project and don't get to use it as often as I'd like. I'm always learning new tricks and things to make it easier to use.
- Being able to tie tasks together so when something changes it makes it easier to track.
- Being able to create categories for tasks and tie them all together.
- It's nice to set holidays and not have to remember them when scheduling farther into the future.
- I've been using it for a while but I don't get to use it as much as I'd like. The is a lot of information and help out there to learn how to use it better.
- Linking tasks together and the whole SS-1D or FS+4D is very confusing. It usually takes me a few tries to get it where I want. There is always information to help figure this out, just need to be willing to look and ask.
- Sorting by date and task can be confusing. At least there's always the undo button.
- I'm always learning something new that makes using project easier and more beneficial for me. I wish I was able to use or more.
I use MS Project in my group which is the Data Conversion group. We use Project to track and manage our workload which is specific to Database conversions. At any given time we have 50 to 75 active projects that start in Requirements, move on to Design and then Development, Testing and then cut over to Production.
- MS Project is fairly easy to use. Adding Projects, Activities, Tasks, etc. are easy to add, and adjust when necessary.
- It offers many different views, so based on your own needs, it is very flexible.
- The reporting functionality is terrific. You can customize what you need to look at, from a full-blown project, or a more slimmed down version of just key milestones.
- It can be a little more difficult to work with when you use all of the hooks, bells and whistles that are available. It will take some time for the Novice user to pick all of this up.
- The columns (if all are used) offers a very crowded view, but I have never used all of these columns and most are hidden, so this may not be an issue to most users of MS Project
- Graphics need to be brought into the 21st Century.
It helps us to make decision charts and then help to look forward to stick to the plans. It is a great tool as we can make charts for work allocation to different personnel involved in the team. In our department, it helps in creating a budget for different units and one can easily track to the resources and deviation from the same. As it's implementation is easy and cost-effective, I like Microsoft Project personally very much.
- Work allocation charts
- Personnel involved and duties and tasks allocated to each individual
- Short term budgetary goals of each units and departments of our company
- Deviation chart from budget
- It needs training for new recruiters as it is much advanced
- Creating and analyzing project report is still a very complicated task
September 20, 2019
Great software that makes project management easy
We use it to manage and track the projects that the team is working on. It is an amazing tool and easy to use. It can be customized as per requirement. It has proven to be very helpful in tracking the development of a project, as well as prevent possible roadblocks.
- Easy to use.
- Cheap.
- Easy to customize.
- Great customer support.
- Sharing data is an issue.
- Some people might need significant training if never used software like this before.
- Might be costly for some.
August 13, 2019
Microsoft Project Gets the Job Done
We use Microsoft Project in the engineering department to manage our water jobs. This helps us coordinate different activities and make sure our projects are on time.
- Easy to use out of the box
- Good integration with the rest of our Office suite
- High price
- To use it well some training would be necessary
Microsoft Project is the tool of choice in our organization to create and follow up on construction project schedules. We use it as a planning and decision-making tool.
- Basic and/or detailed sequencing of activities.
- Helps determine credible timelines for projects.
- The resources assignment tool could be made easier. With so many resources to be managed, assigning resources in construction schedules turns them into huge files that are difficult to manage if your computer is modest in processing capacity.
April 10, 2019
Microsoft Project for Financial Projections
We use Microsoft Project to schedule electrical construction projects. Microsoft Project easily allows for accurate projections when resources are input accurately. Tasking of employees and planning for labor is accomplished easily and it is easy to see when a single labor resource is over-allocated allowing us to decide to increase manpower or adjust the schedule.
- Auto schedule for holidays and weekends without referencing an outside calendar.
- Allocate resources for accurate projections.
- Visualize actual construction progress in the timeline.
- Multiple views and reports for presentation to construction crews and clients.
- Import other schedules from Excel would be nice, but that's asking a lot.
January 25, 2019
An overall great tool for proejct management
We've been using Microsoft Project in our company for over 2 years. It has been a great implementation for improving productivity via software. We chose Microsoft because we knew we would get the best in terms of quality standards. It has plenty of tools we use daily, such as resource planning and a working timetable. We don't feel the need to upgrade it yet.
- It has a great portfolio of tools for its price.
- It's really easy to use, almost everyone can implement it and start using it quickly.
- The fact that project plans can be accessed basically from any place with an internet connection, making it extremely useful for updating those plans on the go.
- A little buggy from time to time, but just in some of our team member's experience.
- UI can be improved, maybe keeping the same design that Office 365 has.
- It can give sometimes an overwhelming feeling when using this product for lesser projects in smaller companies than it is maybe intended to.
December 12, 2018
Great Project Management Tool
When I was in the position I was in I used Microsoft Project for my project management needs. I used this to make sure we were on target with staying within budget for our projects. It was very simple to use and easy to set up. It also has a great interface and showed well especially when presenting the data in meetings.
- the simpleness of tracking budget for a project
- track projects on a task level basis
- real time what if scenarios in terms of task delay
- better built in Visualization capability like One Pager offers as an add on
- sometimes it feels the software is too big and complex to manage really simple projects
- There are not many choices of nice icons to use
December 18, 2018
Project Scheduling Software
- Microsoft Project gives the present status of any project and is used to inform the project status to management and customer.
- Critical paths task can be identified in any project.
- Gantt chart
- Multiple projects scheduling
- More user friendly
- May be less cost
November 21, 2018
Microsoft Project is great for PMs and estimators all alike!
I really like this product to make schedules for projects and it gives all of my trades the ability to see schedules that are upcoming and how they need to prepare for the schedule coming up. I use this along with our project managers and we use this for certain clients who require a gantt chart when we submit a bid to them. Having a schedule set gives us the option to be more competitive than another general contractor.
- Ease of use
- Detailed
- Allows me to make charts
- Way to make a successful project
- I think starting the dates one after another is the hardest part.
- I would like to see Microsoft Project be a little more colorful, it is a little dull.
April 24, 2019
Excellent cost vs. benefit for Project Management
It is used at the whole organization as the official and standard tool of project management. Microsoft Project helps the company to address project management capabilities such as budget tracking, project planning, resources allocation, reporting, baseline and actual progress, and many other things. It is an essential piece of our projects.
- Budget management - You can easily set the available budget and indicate for each activity/resource the necessary amount. Therefore, it is good for the plan & actual budgets.
- Project management - Key elements such as progress management and critical path.
- Basic charts - Gantt charts are really developed and compelling.
- Planned versus actual budgets - Track progress.
- Baseline management - Manage and versioning of baseline.
- Resources allocation - Redistribute and rebalance resources across activities.
- Overall financial management - Microsoft Project is not indicated for complex financial management, such as Net Present Value, S-Chart, and others. It is strongly suggested to complement this capability with either an Excel or integration with SAP or Oracle Primavera Unifier.
- KPIs and dashboards - Microsoft Project still lacks advanced charts and analytics. This should be complemented as well with other tools/software.
March 13, 2019
Project is great
I used this at two different companies. With Mortenson, we used it to do the 2-week look ahead schedules for a $480 million 32-month project, that were then given to the scheduler to update the overall schedule in P6. It was cost saving because there were four superintendents that needed to provide an update weekly. The second company used it exclusively for scheduling purposes for periods of a few weeks to a year + from a $100K to $14 mill. Microsoft Project is cost-effective, versatile, and gets easy to use once you get used to using it more and more.
- First off, the cost is reasonable so a project team can have 4 or 5 licenses compared to a P6.
- Project is easy to use and gets easier to use the more you use it.
- I can print effective schedules that are easy to understand.
- I remember that there were a few files that were corrupted in some way, shape or form, and that forced us to have rebuild and start over.
- I would like more control over the appearance of the schedule.
- I would like to see more online support videos.
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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.
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