Good scheduling program for general use
August 25, 2017
Good scheduling program for general use
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Project
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
- 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.
- Facilitated communication within the project team so that everyone was on the same page regarding the project schedule.
- Allowed for quickly updating the schedule with changes.
- Could easily see the overall impact of a delay on the project schedule.
I had previously used MS Excel to create schedules while in the Army, but Project is unsurprisingly a far more powerful scheduling tool. There are more powerful programs out there, but MS Project is a good balance of power and features for general use. It integrates well with the rest of the MS suite, and is user friendly enough that most people can pick it up fairly easily.