Item: Microsoft Project
Rating: 9
Author: Mary Kylee Rice

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a project manager, I review time lines and schedules produced using Microsoft Project regularly. I produce my own timelines for tracking projects through their lifecycle using Microsoft Project as well. Many project managers on my team also have experience with this software in the same capacity. Microsoft Project easily produces the visual trackers that we need to assess proposals and track Tasks periods and Milestones during a project's lifetime.

Pros and Cons

Provides easy to read visual Gantt charts for quick communication of project timeline and milestones
Provides an intuitive user interface to create Gantt charts
Allows for very quick changes to the timeline and automatic adjustments

An easier syncing system to Microsoft Outlook would be helpful for alarms and calendar reminders
Allowing a task to be variable would be a plus

Return on Investment

Microsoft Project makes visualizing timelines quicker and easier and this saves labor time

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Project is well suited to quickly showing in a visual way the timeline of events for a given project. It is valuable for a proposer communicating the level of planning and the structure in a proposal. The clarity of this timeline and the appropriateness of the milestones is something that we consider while reviewing every application. Microsoft Project output allows us to view these quickly and understand how the pieces of a project are envisioned to fit together.

Microsoft Project helps Project Managers and Proposal Reviewers

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Project

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Return on Investment

Likelihood to Recommend

Microsoft Project Feature Ratings