Item: Microsoft Project
Rating: 10
Author: Gonzalo Justiniani Herrera

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Project

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft Project is the tool of choice in our organization to create and follow up on construction project schedules. We use it as a planning and decision-making tool.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Basic and/or detailed sequencing of activities.
Helps determine credible timelines for projects.

Cons

The resources assignment tool could be made easier. With so many resources to be managed, assigning resources in construction schedules turns them into huge files that are difficult to manage if your computer is modest in processing capacity.

Return on Investment

It has helped us maintain a competitive offer in the project management field, enabling us to ensure our clients that their projects are kept within the schedule or those foreseen obstacles are handled well in advance.

We selected Microsoft Project because of its better use of as a stand-alone tool, plus being a more widely used tool in our business environment. Most of our clients and contractors are familiarized with Microsoft Project so it's easier to share information with them. Plus is a much easier tool for a colleague to teach and with literally a couple of hours of training you can get the least experienced person to start recording information.

Other Software Used

Procore

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for all typical projects where tracking of earned value depends mostly on the percent progress achieved.
Less appropriate for projects where tracking depends more on the effort performed by the assigned resources of each activity. For example, in big construction projects where activities depend on the input of many resources like machinery of different types, manpower of different trades, supervision, etc.

Microsoft Project Feature Ratings

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One of the basic tools for Construction Management