Item: Microsoft Project
Rating: 9
Author: Litzi Saraí Gordils Ortuño

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Project is currently used to track the pace of the project and set up the guidelines of the PM structure. Since we have several projects on the go at same time, we decided to start using MS Project as a company standard app to collaborate and store the advancement stages of each project and how they line up with the company goals.

Pros and Cons

It's a great tool to manage resources, costs, people involved, assignments, and many other things.
It allows the integration with other MS Tools like Power BI, Excel and PowerPoint to strengthen & enhance project collaboration
The Office 365 version is such a great option to run into major collaborative scales, using Skype for Business conference or GoToMeeting hands-on.

Advanced features will require a moderate effort to conquer the complex learning curve.
Reports and Dashboards insights can turn your goals into unsatisfactory results, and this can make it hard to truly stay on top of projects.
You must have a standard version in all your company computers, or you may experience lack of visuals and features.

Return on Investment

It showed our head board how to save time and go straight to the point with the task assigned
The people using MS Project were more open-minded to changes and to accepting specific assignments
It raised the confidence in the results expected from each project stage, by involving all parties to achieve the best result possible.

Alternatives Considered

JIRA Software, Smartsheet and Scoro

Microsoft Project (online version) gives you the chance to do native collaboration using other Microsoft Tools and gather around with all the resources available in your company to set up communications standards, commitments and quality assurance guidelines, and most of all to turn up the heat on the pace of each target to conquer within the project management landscape.

Other Software Used

JIRA Software, Scoro, Smartsheet

Likelihood to Recommend

You can use MS Project to set a mature overview in your Project Management teams, but you need to conquer the steep learning curve, to avoid unexpected results, lack of task tracking, and mostly the isolation of people who run and own processes within the stages of your company projects. If you're looking for an intuitive tool to setup reports, as well as dashboard and real-time tracking of your project, Microsoft Project won't be the best option.

Microsoft Project: a great option to leverage the PM guidelines of your company!

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Project