Moved away but came right back!
Updated July 12, 2022

Moved away but came right back!

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

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Project

Microsoft Project Professional and Microsoft Project Online are being used as the primary project management platform within our project and deliverable based business. We manage marketing, strategy and technical projects with a lifecycle of 3-6 months and a cost up to $1 million.

Our project managers plan all their projects in Microsoft Project, our resources all put in their time sheets for official billing records into Project Online, we reconcile our financials using Microsoft Project and Power BI.
  • Provides a base line
  • Built in critical path view
  • Complex predecessor relationships
  • Multiple path task chains
  • Ease and Simplicity of using multiple billing rates or seasonality in billing
  • User management is still complicated and time consuming
  • Project deployment can be advanced and require additional configuration instead of out of the box functionality
  • Microsoft Project's price point is such that it represents a significant positive ROI when viewed with the vast professional functionality it contains
  • The different tiers of pricing for different resource access levels is immensely helpful in planning our OPEX and being able to right-size our spend for usage
At the end of the day, Microsoft Project still is best in class overall. It isn't as specialized as some tools like Trello or JIRA, but especially with new integration with Planner and native support for Agile project management templates it becomes a lot closer. Microsoft Project provides us all the right tools for the best price point without having to buy a whole lot of functionality that we won't utilize.
Large or medium size and complexity projects using standardized project management methodologies will benefit from using Microsoft Project.

Small, temporary, time-bound projects with small teams could be managed using something like Microsoft Planner or Workfront.

Microsoft Project Feature Ratings

Task Management
7
Resource Management
8
Gantt Charts
10
Scheduling
8
Workflow Automation
4
Team Collaboration
5
Support for Agile Methodology
7
Support for Waterfall Methodology
10
Document Management
6
Email integration
3
Mobile Access
2
Timesheet Tracking
10
Change request and Case Management
6
Budget and Expense Management
9
Quotes/estimates
4
Invoicing
3
Project & financial reporting
10
Integration with accounting software
4