Microsoft Project Review
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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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- Gantt Charts (103)10.0100%
- Scheduling (105)9.999%
- Task Management (106)9.090%
- Resource Management (103)6.969%
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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.
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Microsoft Project Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
Earliz and Cerri Work are common alternatives for Microsoft Project.
Reviewers rate Gantt Charts highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Microsoft Project are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 18, 2024
Microsoft Project Review
Score 5 out of 10
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I do not use any other software
April 05, 2023
App, Web, and Desktop Local Project Management
Score 8 out of 10
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Microsoft Project provided more robust, collaborative solution to Turnkey Project Management. With Excel like sheets for Project Task Schedules are used for contractors and users it was well accepted i.e good UI UX. Integration capability of Microsoft Project Online with Power App and Power Automate + Share point made collaboration most useful. Security features of Microsoft Project is managed by Azure Active Directory Settings.
July 12, 2022
Moved away but came right back!
At the end of the day, Microsoft Project still is best in class overall. It isn't as specialized as some tools like Trello or JIRA, but especially with new integration with Planner and native support for Agile project management templates it becomes a lot closer. Microsoft Project provides us all the right tools for the best price point without having to buy a whole lot of functionality that we won't utilize.
March 09, 2022
The best software for managing large projects
I can't remember because it was many years ago. But Microsoft Project was very affordable and had a much larger set of features. Also the stability of its technology, as well as the number of existing users, the abundant documentation and the possibility of having well-defined integration APIs certainly influenced it.
- LiquidPlanner and Projectplace
MS Project is most familiar to our users, so the learning curve is easiest. However, MS Project doesn't allow our teams to collaborate nor does it track actual vs. planned effort (time reporting). Hence it's not the only tool we use. We typically plan with MS Project and use it to run scenarios for project execution strategy. We also use a third-party add-on to perform Monte Carlo simulations on our schedule. Once we have established a schedule, then we no longer use MS Project and export the schedule to Projectplace which better supports our Agile teams and team collaboration. Additionally, Projectplace supports time reporting so we can easily see how the project team executed compared to plan.
November 17, 2021
Project lifecycle managed with Microsoft project.
- Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server) and Atlassian JIRA Align (formerly AgileCraft)
Dependency tracking and automated task management helped its raking above other competitors in the usage. Microsoft support and updates are also reliable. Security is also good for this tool. UI is also good and task management is very effective. Integrations are also easy.
November 02, 2021
The best project management solution hands down.
There are some good MS Project alternatives that I have tested/used in the past. These would be GanttProject and OpenWorkbench. These are open source programs that offer a lot of basic features in a Project software solution. I have also tested/used Microsoft Planner, which is an app within Office 365. With all of these solutions though, they are very scaled-down versions of Project software, meaning they will not be feature-rich as MS Project, nor be a really robust Project Management solution for many environments that are doing serious Project Management.
July 22, 2021
A Workhorse for Scheduling
ProjectLibre is a free or open source version of MS Project. It’s supported by a community of programmers that maintain its versions. It’s definitely not MS Project but definitely gives you a good idea what to expect from MS Project. I would recommend trying it first to see if fits your needs.
Microsoft Project will continue to be my tool of choice for high stakes high complexity projects with over 100 tasks and many requirements to control costs and delivery but the assumption is that a dedicated PM is needed to keep the file updated and manage communication with the Team.
Trello and monday.com are useful for general project tracking across the enterprise since it is super easy to communicate and share status with stakeholders and members automatically, great automation and integration with other SAAS solutions but breaks down on very large projects.
Jira has the capacity to manage very large projects and is especially useful for SCRUM and other software development methodologies. But for large scale projects again MS Project is the tool.
Trello and monday.com are useful for general project tracking across the enterprise since it is super easy to communicate and share status with stakeholders and members automatically, great automation and integration with other SAAS solutions but breaks down on very large projects.
Jira has the capacity to manage very large projects and is especially useful for SCRUM and other software development methodologies. But for large scale projects again MS Project is the tool.
Better suited for everyone in the team due to an existing partnership with Microsoft for access to other software suite provided by them.
As our IT is based on Microsft Office 365, we have privileged access to MS Project licences, resources, training and support, so we didn't use any other PM software.
May 27, 2021
Project planning and management at its best
- Smartsheet and Wrike
Initially, I tried using Smartsheet and then Wrike, all for Gantt Chart availability and task management. They don't come close to the flexibility or depth of features that Microsoft Project provides.
Wrike does have better collaboration amongst team members and provides an easy-to-use interface for sharing files and ideas. Unfortunately, this doesn't translate well into the Enterprise project world where team members are not inclined to chat or need to see an email/alert for every activity done by others.
Wrike does have better collaboration amongst team members and provides an easy-to-use interface for sharing files and ideas. Unfortunately, this doesn't translate well into the Enterprise project world where team members are not inclined to chat or need to see an email/alert for every activity done by others.
May 26, 2021
Jiho's Microsoft Project Review on 2021/05/20
Mostly I chose Microsoft Project due to the usage we're using for our clients. The primary reason for using Microsoft Project is because it's working well with our legacy in-house applications/solutions for our project management. We have many users who have multiple different versions of Microsoft project applications on their machines, and keeping and providing Microsoft Project to our project team is more effective for their project work.
Because is a powerful tool that include everything that you need to manage your projects also are on-line on cloud. On app very easy to use the other vendor offer minimal support and upgrades for the tool MS project is always improvement, new features a lots of information on-line for training can help you in the process to implement the tool.
Microsoft Project was the most expensive project management software that we utilized aside from the costs associated with developing and in-house service. Microsoft Project provide a wealth of features for managing a large scale project like planning all of the tasks associated with opening an office building. It provided too many features and functionally to be cost effective for small and routine tasks. In addition it was more difficult to incorporate documents from some sources including Google or other services.
We picked Microsoft Project instead of ProofHub due to us already using Office 365. Microsoft Project was the cheaper of the two options and seemed to fit our needs better than ProofHub. It seemed to be easier to use on the front end since some of our less technology-savvy employees already knew how to use Microsoft programs.
Microsoft Project is a reasonable price and provides all of the functions we need, and even more. The fancier tools will be more expensive but not necessarily be more effective, so sticking with the industry standard seems to be the reasonable choice.
May 17, 2021
Great for large projects
Project integrates more with other Microsoft software so it is more flexible for us to use.
February 03, 2020
Best Scheduling Software... Easy to Use, Manage, & Implement
Procore allows Microsoft Project schedules to be uploaded into it. It is not an easy feature to use. The uploading is a piece of cake, but changing anything after that is challenging and never seems to track correctly for me. Maybe I need more practice but it is not a feature I use often, I prefer to use the program alone!
January 29, 2020
The Impressive Rise and Potential of MP
Microsoft Project had the strongest integrations and Gantt chart qualities. As a team that uses Outlook, Skype, DevOps and the Office Suite, it became clear that Project suited our needs best. Additionally, testing found that the user interface and security features pleased users, stakeholders, and IT team requirements.
January 28, 2020
Project works for us!
January 27, 2020
Works well if you’re a PM, challenging for a business end user.
January 24, 2020
A good value for money software for any corporate
Microsoft Project needs to do better job on the flexibility and user interface of the software. The colors used by monday.com and shortcuts they have provided are much smoother. However, Microsoft project is more compatible with other Microsoft products like excel which gives it an edge against monday.com.
January 21, 2020
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project is similar in its setup, but as with other Microsoft products there are many features buried in the tabs. You have to know what you are looking for.
January 18, 2020
Microsoft Project - Excellent Project Management
Microsoft Project is an excellent tool for most businesses to help visualize company progress. This software compares to many others out there, however it doesn't offer anything extra or "different". Since it is Microsoft brand, I will say it runs extremely smooth and you know what you're getting when you invest in a Microsoft software.