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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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| 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.
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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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- connecting works as precursors and successors,
- determining the critical path
- A more effective collaboration with excel
- user friendly interface
- autorun for some data entry
April 05, 2023
App, Web, and Desktop Local Project Management
Score 8 out of 10
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- Scheduling of Tasks on time basis or on custom criteria
- Collaborative Task Assignment and getting Progress Inputs Online
- Road Maps, Numerous Reports help assess the projects
- Readily available apps from Share point Store MS Office store are useful for extending the functionality of the product eg Custom Dashboards
- Calculating Project Progress based on Custom Fields( which are used to measure Task Progress on Special Performance Criteria )
- Simplifying CSOM and JSOM customization
- Not limiting Support to Only Out of The Box features
March 18, 2023
Planning is a breeze with 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
July 12, 2022
Moved away but came right back!
- Provides a base line
- Built in critical path view
- Complex predecessor relationships
- Multiple path task chains
- Ease and Simplicity of using multiple billing rates or seasonality in billing
- User management is still complicated and time consuming
- Project deployment can be advanced and require additional configuration instead of out of the box functionality
March 09, 2022
The best software for managing large projects
- Microsoft Project has features that can be customized, as well as its APIs are well documented and allow integration with other tools.
- Can be customized for agile project management.
- Its documentation is well done and as it has many users, doubts and problems are easily resolved within the community itself. However, Microsoft's technical support is efficient.
- it is an old tool that has already improved a lot in its use; however, it needs to be better developed to follow agile projects.
- Advanced features require training.
- Reports are not enough.
- Adding dependencies between tasks. MS Project allows 4 types of relationships to be built (SS, FS, SF, FF) and adding lag between tasks, so you have the ultimate flexibility to define how tasks are related.
- Once relationships are defined, MS Project does a good job to highlight/identify the critical path.
- If you put in the details (resource allocation, task priority), then resource leveling works well.
- Ability to select specific tasks or summary tasks for the timeline is good to give an overview of the project.
- Linking tasks between different MS Project files. It can be done, but it's hard to manage and easy to completely break the project plan. We've learned to save multiple versions of the plan in case an external link breaks the project catastrophically.
- Inability to look at resource loading over multiple projects or multiple project files. This has led us to link multiple files together as a mitigation, which has shortcomings (see above).
- Network diagram has improved in recent versions, but still limiting. I often use VISIO to create network diagrams instead of MS Project & end up duplicating information.
November 17, 2021
Project lifecycle managed with Microsoft project.
- project management
- Dependency tracking
- resource management
- task management
- reporting
- scheduling concerns
- UI could be improved
- Resource utilizations charts
- scope management
November 02, 2021
The best project management solution hands down.
- 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.
July 22, 2021
A Workhorse for Scheduling
- 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.
June 04, 2021
Effectiveness in planning new projects.
- I love the Gantt Chart that Microsoft Project offers me, because it provides me with a view from various aspects, it provides me with exact details about the fulfillment of tasks over a period of time, it also allows me to make comparisons with the necessary data and the fulfilled data. by the employees, in order to know exactly if the project's expectations have been met.
- I love the Gantt Chart that Microsoft Project offers me, because it provides me with a view from various aspects, it provides me with exact details about the fulfillment of tasks over a period of time, it also allows me to make comparisons with the necessary data and the fulfilled data by the employees, in order to know exactly if the project's expectations have been met.
- The alert system for the fulfillment and delay of assignments is perfect. Microsoft Project allows me to configure the task system, I can assign the necessary tasks to fulfill the project, and the software alerts me immediately if the managers are fulfilling the assignments.
- The main drawback encountered while using Microsoft Project is that it does not allow me to modify the template or the general user design. For me, the UI that this software has is quite simple, and I would like to apply different templates or modify the layout of my MS Project workspace, currently it is not possible.
- Sometimes the software crashes suddenly, throwing an error code, and the software closes immediately. This has happened to me when I am going through the detailed reports on my gantt chart, it is not something that affects me that much, but I think they should fix it.
- I have not had any other problems with Microsoft Project, it has been an exemplary software that has helped me to maintain a very good project planning in general.
- DETAILED PLANNING ON LARGE SCALE/COMPLEX PROJECTS. Task interactions dependencies.
- Very detailed resource management. You're able to track across the projects the utilization of all of your resources.
- Powerful cost management. You can track costs for your resources, for your individual tasks, and quickly update any additional cost requirements for the projects, map those costs against your budget and get a detailed report of your burn rate to mitigate possible budget risks.
- Complexity. With great power and flexibility comes a high level of complexity that makes some of the more advanced features very difficult to use on a day-to-day basis. i.e. being able to get several calendars integrated into a project for different kinds of resources is great but it takes a long time to get a handle on that and make it work for you.
- Unless you have an MS Project Server setup and all of the team members licensed with an MS Project Account working on a project are limited to those PMs and collaborators with a full license even for minor updates.
- The tools to present projects to other team members and present updates have not been updated to reflect the needs of the current PM, every view and presentation has to be manually cured to be presentable to the board and that is a very time consuming process.
- Changing status, colors or updating items automatically based on dates or other tasks is out of the question unless you really have a full set of VBA knowledge and the time to make it happen.
- Scheduling the tasks
- Defining the interdependicies
- Analyzing the critical path
- Live seamless collaboration across team members
- Templates to suit a variety of use cases
- More visual analytics
- Gantt chart and tasks planning
- Tasks dependencies and delay impacts
- Shared resources management
- Project timeline visualisation
- Hidden costs can rise very quickly (licencing, training...)
- Not available inline and not included in Office 365
- Old fashioned and not intuitive to use
May 27, 2021
Project planning and management at its best
- Project planning
- Baseline measurement
- Resource allocation
- Useful report templates
- Geared towards waterfall projects
- Complicated to use/learn.
- Clunky interface for report creation & modification.
- Difficult to integrate with email and/or Sharepoint to send team alerts.
May 26, 2021
Jiho's Microsoft Project Review on 2021/05/20
- Project/Task Management
- Schedule Management
- Charts
- Resource Management
- Web Enhancement
- Integrated with other ERP systems
- Assigning task to the team
- Manage multiple projects one view
- Allow to manage TEAMS and assign projects and task
- Online version a little different in some cases
- Big picture view.
- Gantt timeline view.
- Collaboration with MS Teams.
- Integrating with non-MS collaboration tools.
- It get more functionality it can become expensive.
- More visualization tools to analyze trends.
- Scheduling
- Assigning of tasks
- Communication
- Learning curve is steep
- Integration of other software would be nice.
- Must have Office 365.
- Fairly simple in function and does not overwhelm you with too many details--as simple or as detailed as you wish to use it
- It might be the most common scheduling tool in construction and, therefore, does not require much of a learning curve for employees to be trained
- The appearance of the exported deliverables can be finely tuned to your needs or your clients' needs
- The user interface is a bit outdated but still perfectly functional
- Printing schedules--can be tricky to get the view that you want and often requires a creative workaround to get the look you want
- Editing your schedule from the gantt chart activities is not as easy, as Microsoft Project is more geared toward the edits from the table view, which can be challenging for visual learners
May 17, 2021
Great for large projects
- Resource Allocation
- Task Dependencies
- Gantt Chart
- Ease of use
- Exporting to other formats
- look and feel
February 03, 2020
Best Scheduling Software... Easy to Use, Manage, & Implement
- Easy to use
- Easy to update / change / manage
- More templates available
- Help section could be more descriptive (use photos)
January 29, 2020
The Impressive Rise and Potential of MP
- Microsoft Product integrations, including sharing and reminder notifications.
- Interactive Gantt chart.
- More efficient, reliable project and DevOps integration.
- Training resources for new users.
January 28, 2020
Project works for us!
- Graphs
- Timelines
- Crashes ocassionally
- Some graphs get too busy
January 27, 2020
Works well if you’re a PM, challenging for a business end user.
- 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
A good value for money software for any corporate
- 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.