MS project used by Project Manager
September 05, 2017
MS project used by Project Manager
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Project
It's used to as a tool to plan and manage projects. It's a common tool to use for standard communication to clients and internal stakeholders. It could help us to save time since there are automated features such as scheduling when we change durations which help a lot. Rather than using Excel or another tool and putting effort into scripting or making updates manually, MS Project would give us time for coffee.
- Automated calculation
- Easy to use, even for newbies
- Standard report available
- New versions like 2016 - it's hard to manage the font (look and feel). Even with ctl+a and set fonts, when adding a new take, it turned out to be the original font. Better to have the same standard as the Microsoft family.
- Stability of auto schedule. Sometimes when setting the auto take, the schedule does not change when changing either the duration or dependency.
- Compatibility with another, well, exporting as Excel or XML is not a choice since it might not import [completelly] to another project management app. Knowing it is a paid app, but the world has changed already, people are looking for open souce. So if it cannot be used compatibly, people will have to choose to pay or move completely to open souce. Tough decision!
- Mac version, please.
- Get fastser plan which would save our times and turn to be our cost of work and increase revenue
- Customer satisfaction since our turnaround time is fast
- not easy to look to a resource as a whole, so required additional software to manage it
- opensouce project viewer
Microsoft Project is more user-friendly and automated. It is also faster than when doing auto calculations. In terms of usages, it is widely used in many organizations, so it is easy to send the file across and ask the receiver to open it.