A great flexible and complete tool for Project Managers
July 14, 2025

A great flexible and complete tool for Project Managers

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Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Project


Microsoft
Project is used for que PMO Team and all Project Managers to organize tasks,
create schedules, planning resources capacity, create Gantt Charts and issue
reports. The product helps to estimate deadlines, calculate workload,
estimate budget, analize future scenarios for the projects and also is an
important tool to monitor the projects execution.

Pros

  • It organizes and groups tasks easily.
  • It allows to input resources costs and calculates totals.
  • It's possible create different types of fields customization.
  • It issues many types of usefull reports.

Cons

  • Implement some intelligence into formula creation by checking for errors in real time.
  • Have the planning percentage field as default.
  • In the print functionality, create an option to omit the table on the left showing only the Gantt chart.
  • It reduces labor costs because Microsoft Project decrease the time spent planning and monitoring project activities.
  • It allows to change project planning with minimal operational effort, reducing change management costs.

Microsoft
Project is easy to operate because data could be inserted, changed and
deleted like you are in an Excel timesheet. Besides, it provides a great
level of automation beween his fields allowing few data changes. Also, its
funcionalities are well defined and grouped in upper menus, so you can find a
funcionality quickly.

Do you think Microsoft Project delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft Project's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft Project live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft Project go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Microsoft Project again?

Yes


Microsoft
Project is well suited for waterfall projects, considering some features such
as task sequencing and timelines with phases and milestones. For agile
projects, Microsoft Project is not so good, especially when using an agile
methodology, such as Scrum. Agile projects need some specific features, such
as backlog control and sprint backlog.

Microsoft Project Feature Ratings

Project Management
8.3
Task Management
10
Resource Management
10
Gantt Charts
10
Scheduling
10
Support for Agile Methodology
1
Support for Waterfall Methodology
10
Budget and Expense Management
7
Professional Services Automation
7.0
Project & financial reporting
7

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