MS project in higher education environment
September 27, 2018
MS project in higher education environment
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Project
MS Project is a very powerful tool in project management. I use it both for work at the IT department and for educational purposes in advanced project management classes.
The software enables me to manage resource pools effectively, assign resources to tasks, manage tasks and complex schedules ranging between 100 and 2000 tasks.
The software enables me to manage resource pools effectively, assign resources to tasks, manage tasks and complex schedules ranging between 100 and 2000 tasks.
- Has advanced cost estimation capabilities, as it calculates varying hourly rates, overtime, off schedule work and provides advanced cost reports
- Easy to use when preparing gantt charts and timelines. Dependencies can be set and auto scheduling can be enabled
- Takes into account resource calendars, holidays and other unexpected off days
- Has advanced project management features for crashing activities, leveling resources and handling over allocations
- You can easily customize and export reports
- Compatible with Excel
- It is hard to understand advanced features without a training or advanced project management knowledge
- Resource pools feature can be added
- Team planner and web access would make it a full solution
- It improved the schedule accuracy which in turn improved the overall efficiency in the IT department
- Finish project with SPI and CPI close to 1
- No more missed or unassigned tasks
Primavera is more complex to use and not compatible with the commonly used MS office applications such as Excel. The cost of a Primavera license exceeds that of MS project by multiple times. Primavera is preferred in construction projects, though.