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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$30
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$55
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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 |
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.
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, 2023
Planning is a breeze with Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project is the tool that most helps in the planning of a large number of projects; the delivery time of projects and tasks is essential for success in all departments and this tool allows us to know specifically in which task we are doing a good job and in which we have different problems or delays. I can also say that Microsoft Project is very easy to execute and control according to our specifications and requirements. We have success in our hands and this is thanks to the good performance of Microsoft Project.
- The ability to diagram specific aspects of each project or task
- The ease of execution
- Ability to make modifications (assignments, dates, schedules, diagrams, monitoring)
- Has some limitations related to performance in areas of visual analysis
- The configuration is not the simplest--the use is perfect, but after configuring it
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8.9
95%
9.5
- Microsoft Project offers exemplary features for small- and large-scale project execution.
- Planning is one of the reasons to keep using Microsoft Project and to maintain remarkable ROI success.
- Simplicity is also one of the guarantees of the success of projects; we know that we have this tool on a daily basis.
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- Online document editing.
- Document management.
- Exporting documents.
- This product is used in more than 8 departments today and we know how to integrate other tools to improve performance.
- enabling all users to have an account of this software guarantees better work performance and we know that once we achieve this we will improve significantly.
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.
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9.3
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- It saves a ton of time. A little work upfront says on the back end.
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I am unsure of exactly how many people us it
I do not know. I don't deal with that area
- I use Microsoft Project to create job schedules
- We use it to figure manpower based on task durations
- We use it to figure durations based on manpower
- We use it to calculate manpower needs based on durations of tasks to be performed
- I would like to learn how to use it more fully. I only use it for basic schedule building but I know that it can do so much more
Not Sure
- Prior Experience with the Product
The decision wasn't mine to make
I wasn't involved
- Don't know
- unknown
I've never used Microsoft support
- Entering tasks and basic schedule building are very simple
- linking tasks together is simple
- Linking task tasks together and trying to work off of SS or FS and figuring exactly what it is calculating from
- I don't really understand much else other than basic schedule building so everything else seem cumbersome to me
April 18, 2018
Microsoft project has really made my life easier
I am the IT project manager for the company I work for and I live and breathe Microsoft Project. Before using this software, I was stuck with using Excel spreadsheets to track project statuses and milestones. As the projects got more complex, Excel just wasn't doing the job anymore. I presented Project to Exec. management and we made the purchase and tracking my projects have gotten so much easier once you get past the steep learning curve.
- Ability to track Milestones
- Ability to track Resources
- Has a really good Gantt chart
- Steep learning curve
- To get the full suite with the Project server, it is very expensive
- Printing the project plan is a bit challenging
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7.4
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7.3
- Project has helped keep my project from being derailed by scope creep.
- While Project isn't a money making tool, it does help keep your projects on-budget
- MS Project is a pretty hefty expense. Integration is supported, if you have MS project Server.
- excel and Basecamp
Project is much more robust compared to other products on the market. I haven't evaluated them all, but I'm pretty happy with what project has been able to do for me and a Project manager. There is a lot of functionality if you don't many paying for it. Overall, I think Project would go toe to toe with any other PM software out there.
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If they have never used MS Project, you will want someone who isn't afraid of a challenge
- Project schedule tracking
- Project budget tracking
- Project resource tracking
- Invoicing was an interesting feature that I've started looking at.
- As we grow, we may looking into buying project server.
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Excel
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- Prior Experience with the Product
The most important factor what that it could do everything I needed a project software to do.
Maybe looking at more options, but there are a lot of PM software out there and I only evaluated 2 other aside MS Project