General purpose power tool --for good and for bad
March 16, 2018

General purpose power tool --for good and for bad

Daniel Blazquez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Project

Our organization relies at many levels on the Microsoft platform, from desktop operating systems, to productivity (Microsoft Office 365), and additional services such as storage (One Drive, etc). So we do use Microsoft Project on certain occasions. The main need is resource coordination and project planning. Most users use the desktop app, we haven't deployed many on mobile devices so far.
  • Generic, classic projects with well defined constraints
  • Gantt-based planning
  • Waterfall methodologies
  • Agile project planning
  • Vague requirements
  • Domain-specific applications
  • Good piece to have in our toolbox, but should not be the only option
  • Harder to compute ROI as we are a large corporate account, comes bundled
  • We see it as a "feature" of Office, as opposed to a "destination"
Each project has different needs and we switch back and forth. We often find Microsoft Office to be too generic for specific purposes, in which case we gravitate towards domain-specific tools, such as JIRA for software project management.
As mentioned above, when the project is well understood, and the main goal is coordinate people, tasks, and resources around dependencies and dates, Microsoft Project is powerful. Not so much in software development projects, or when requirements change often (in that case I would recommend a Kansan-Based environment, as opposed to Gantt-based environment).

Microsoft Project Feature Ratings

Task Management
10
Resource Management
10
Gantt Charts
10
Scheduling
9
Workflow Automation
Not Rated
Team Collaboration
Not Rated
Support for Agile Methodology
2
Support for Waterfall Methodology
10
Document Management
Not Rated
Email integration
9
Mobile Access
9
Timesheet Tracking
9
Change request and Case Management
6
Budget and Expense Management
6
Quotes/estimates
Not Rated
Invoicing
Not Rated
Project & financial reporting
Not Rated
Integration with accounting software
Not Rated