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Microsoft Project

Overview

What is Microsoft Project?

Microsoft Project is a project management software. It provides core PM functionality, including agile workflow support and resource management. Project can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise.

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Pricing

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Project Server

$0

On Premise

Planner Plan 1

$10

Cloud
per month per user

Planner Plan 1

$10

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.microsoft.com/en…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $10 per month per user
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Product Demos

Microsoft Project 2021 Overview And Features Walkthrough

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Features

Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

8.9
Avg 7.6

Professional Services Automation

Features that support professional services organizations

9.5
Avg 7.5
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Product Details

What is Microsoft Project?

Microsoft Project is a project management software that helps users plan, execute, and monitor projects effectively. It includes features for managing tasks, allocating resources and budgeting. With integration into Microsoft 365, it supports real-time collaboration and data sharing. The advanced reporting and analytics tools allow users to track progress and make data-driven decisions.​

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With Microsoft Project, users can plan projects with dynamic scheduling based on effort needed, project duration, and allotted team members. Suitable for projects of any size, Microsoft Project offers flexible deployment options, both cloud-based and on-premises, catering to a wide range of organizational needs.​

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Microsoft Project Features

Project Management Features

  • Supported: Task Management
  • Supported: Resource Management
  • Supported: Gantt Charts
  • Supported: Scheduling
  • Supported: Team Collaboration
  • Supported: Support for Agile Methodology
  • Supported: Support for Waterfall Methodology
  • Supported: Change request and Case Management
  • Supported: Budget and Expense Management

Professional Services Automation Features

  • Supported: Quotes/estimates
  • Supported: Project & financial reporting

Additional Features

  • Supported: Work Management
  • Supported: OKRs

Microsoft Project Integrations

Microsoft Project Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesArabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish

Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft Project is a project management software. It provides core PM functionality, including agile workflow support and resource management. Project can be deployed in the cloud or on-premise.

Microsoft Project starts at $10.

monday.com, Smartsheet, and Atlassian Jira are common alternatives for Microsoft Project.

Reviewers rate Gantt Charts and Scheduling and Invoicing highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Microsoft Project are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 48)

Good scheduling program for general use

Rating: 7 out of 10
August 25, 2017
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Project
2 years of experience
We used MS project for granular scheduling of manufacturing projects at plant level and below. Our company level project management software (Windchill) was not well suited to quickly adapting and updating detailed schedules at lower levels. MS Project gave us the ability to schedule projects at a lower level level within the company and a higher level of detail than Windchill.
  • Critical path analysis
  • Linking tasks and automatically updating the schedule as things change
  • Quickly and easily update the schedule with changes
Cons
  • Didn't really use the man hour calculations.
  • If you don't understand how to correctly link and build your schedule, it's easy to lose many of the benefits of the program.
MS Project was great for making Gantt charts and easy to read visuals to make project schedules more clear to people. We used it to create and update quick snapshots of sections of projects (for example, a look-ahead for the next 8 weeks). We could easily import images into PowerPoint or export as a PDF, so we could present the schedule in a meeting, then share it afterward in the minutes.

Microsoft Project is great for PMs and estimators all alike!

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 21, 2018
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
Cons
  • 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.
I use Microsoft Project whenever I am putting together a bid and my PMs use it for the entirety of the project. We use it to make deadlines (or beat them) and discuss when our trades will be in.

It's an excellent tool for developing detailed project planning

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 09, 2018
I work as a coordinator of a laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico. In this role, I have to supervise graduate students to complete their research, thesis work or any particular project. Also, when we are writing proposals for research we need to provide a detailed plan of our research project. MS Project helps me manage the time these kinds of project take. In addition, it helps to elaborate on Gantt charts using task dependencies in case something unexpected occurs and the project gets delayed.
  • The Gantt chart tool has many options to manage costs and time in an organized way.
  • The file created in MS Project may be exported to be used in another MS Office software.
  • Customer support coming from Microsoft is great. There is always an article or forum to help me.
Cons
  • I would like MS Project to be more user-friendly. There are some functionalities that keep being hard to use like the time organization.
  • It should have a way of exporting a nice and well presented PDF document to be shared. Today is very hard to create a nice image showing the goals.
  • I think it should have integration with internet and social networks in order to engage other people to work together in an easy way.
Microsoft Project is well suited for creating formal documents to manage a specific project. It provides a lot of calculations that help to create a detailed plan for a project. I think that Microsoft Project is not suited for non-formal organizations like a group of friends or students because it is very rigid to be used for huge projects with costs and that kind of things. I think that it will be better if it gets easier to use with more simple projects. At least, it should have the option to select templates for different kinds of projects.

MS Project old fashioned good practice

Rating: 6 out of 10
December 19, 2019
JW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Project
15 years of experience
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.
Cons
  • Collaboration.
  • Integration with other software.
MS Project is very good for people who would like to plan project timelines with all dependencies, it is also good when you would like to exchange projects across other organizations because almost everybody has it and you just send a project file and the other person can open it and work.

MS Project, still clunky - still works :)

Rating: 7 out of 10
June 14, 2018
DL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Project
4 years of experience
Used for project managements slightly differently for each product. I used it to keep the input of my projects in order. Others in the company use it for managing the entire development project. Again, I mainly use it for managing my deliverables for all of the projects that I am involved in.
  • Gantt charts Gantt charts Gantt charts! It is the best tool for flexibility of creating and updating the scheduing charts
  • Flexibility and ease of updating relating certain tasks relating to or relying on other tasks.
  • The resource management tools are very useful
  • Integration with the other Microsoft tools that we also all use.
Cons
  • With not every team member using project, is difficult to share the full plan.
  • Not super intuitive as other MS products...but not that bad.
Suited very well for an overall visualization of the project for a medium or larger team. Regular updates are helpful to keep the group on track and again, great visualization of the entire project. It is well recognized so that moving from company to company could be familiar (like the other MS products). Not as good when real-time information changing frequently needs to be viewed by the entire team in real time. Reporting is not as intuitive as it could be.
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