MS Project Sucks for Small Biz
June 13, 2017
MS Project Sucks for Small Biz
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Project
MS Project has been used in a few facets of our development cycle, primarily to allocate tasks among team members and maintain a central timeline for our larger client engagements.
- MS Project is extremely standard. The UI and functionality did not stand out from competitors, and that made adoption very smooth.
- Project is good at tracking a small number of broad tasks, but simply took too much manual control to scale up or use in an agile process.
- Death by minutiae! I'm a busy guy, so tracking complex projects became a massive waste of time.
- Being the only person with access to the file, I was the only one able to log project updates. This was a huge PITA.
- Microsoft Project was a massive time sink. It wasted hours of my time and returned no benefit. For a small, agile, rapid software team, MS Project was worse than worthless - it cost us time.
As a small, agile, fast moving web development agency, we use Gmail now for task tracking. Easy client tagging, stakeholders can be looped in with a click, and progress is continuously monitored. Of all the project managemen software out there, Gmail is the clear winner in my mind.