About Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project helps businesses plan projects and collaborate with one another from anywhere using tools such as task assignment, due-date tracking, dependency configuration, scheduling, business intelligence integration, and more. The solution helps users to streamline projects, resources, and portfolio management with integrated planning tools for project tracking. It is a flexible solution for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work, delivered through Office 365.
Project helps users execute projects using tools including built-in templates, familiar scheduling tools, and access to projects across devices to help project managers and teams stay productive. Businesses can evaluate and optimize project portfolios through seamless integration with Power BI, which provides advanced analytics and built-in reports.
Users can gain insight into how resources are used with features for resource management such as visual heat maps of capacity and resource usage, and robust resource analytics. With simplified task and time management, teams can enter updates from anywhere, offering greater executive oversight and facilitating global collaboration. The Project platform allows teams to utilize methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall, depending on their workflows and needs.
Key benefits of Microsoft Project
• Utilize the timeline functionality to visualize projects. The Team Planner allows users to view what’s coming up in the future and anticipate changes or potential problems.
• Enhance collaboration with the ability to copy project information to Office applications such as PowerPoint or email and save important plans and details to Office 365 or SharePoint.
• Setup projects and assign team members to them, set start and finish dates, add dependencies, and define durations.
• Integrate Project with Microsoft Power BI to create interactive dashboards based on project metrics and drill down on performance.
• Manage Agile projects within Microsoft Project using Scrum and Kanban boards, as well as custom workflows and methodologies.
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- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Good alternative, but a bit pricey
Reviewed on 2021-09-21
As an experienced user, I've never had any major issue. The bottom line is that it works, and it...
As an experienced user, I've never had any major issue. The bottom line is that it works, and it does its job. I just wish they will upgrade the experience, in regards to interface design.
Pros
For many years, it was the de facto software for project management and if you were in the field, you had to use it. So many older users like me, use it mostly because of this reason.
Besides that, it's well designed and a solid alternative. For experienced users, is one of the best tools in the market. And in this case, it's quite easy to start a new project.
Cons
It looks like Microsoft Project got stuck in time. Newer alternatives are easier to use, and the design is prettier. Microsoft Project like other Office apps, are just to boxed into the Office style apps. In other words, it lacks innovations and doesn't help the users' creativity.
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ClickUpReasons for Switching to Microsoft Project
Many years ago, it was the de facto project management tool, so I didn't have many options. And I got hooked and have been a user since then.
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Saves time in planning and collaborating project
Reviewed on 2021-01-28
This software has help me and my colleague to create shortcuts to planning, creating and deploying...
This software has help me and my colleague to create shortcuts to planning, creating and deploying project.
The task can be marked with time frame and the system will send notification if the task is still not completed before the due date.
Pros
I really like template that are provided by Microsoft Project, it is highly customized to my project objective and my liking. The feature that i use the most can be pinned on the dashboard interface and keep it organized. Most of the user are using it, and there are no issue to shares the project file to my other colleague and they can open it without any compatibility problem.
Cons
Microsoft Project is quite pricey as we can't subscribe only the Microsoft Project itself, we have to buy all the software on the Microsoft suite to use it. If only they can let user to separately subscribing it, more user can will use it. Other thing that i dislike is, no video tutorial provided to teach user how to use the feature in the software.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
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Reviewed on 2023-10-23
Pros
Good software for project managment.Easy to use and very easy to view the project schedule.Automatic grant diagrams very helpfull
Cons
Although its very intuitive some of the advanced fixture needs trainning.Limited acess
- Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
I want to like this product as it has potential, but...
Reviewed on 2022-05-26
This product has so much potential if they could resolve the bugs, interface, and integration with...
This product has so much potential if they could resolve the bugs, interface, and integration with other Microsoft software. It truly could be a one-stop product if they could dial this in.
Pros
This product is incredibly affordable, especially when it comes with the entire Microsoft Suite. It also is familiar when compared to other Microsoft products.
Cons
Unfortunately, this product feels dated and clunky. It's visually not as appealing as other project management software and is the least intuitive in design. This product also is riddled with bugs that prevent tasks/projects from updating or saving properly, which can be devastating to an entire team. Additionally, this product is very clunky when integrating with other products, especially with other Microsoft software, which is genuinely disappointing.
- Industry: Arts & Crafts
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10
Microsoft Project to make work more simple and quick
Reviewed on 2023-08-21
Pros
Use simple, the function is powerful, rich project template, can help the team to solve the examination and approval, newsletters, manage a lot of work
Cons
Although the Project has a very powerful features, but it is not suitable for all Project management
Microsoft Project FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Microsoft Project.Q. What type of pricing plans does Microsoft Project offer?
Microsoft Project offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$10.00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Project Plan 1: $10.00 user/month Project Plan 3: $30.00 user/month Project Plan 5: $55.00 user/month Project Standard 2019: $620 (one-time license) Project Professional 2019: $1030 (one-time license)
Q. Who are the typical users of Microsoft Project?
Microsoft Project has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Microsoft Project support?
Microsoft Project supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, traditional Chinese
Q. Does Microsoft Project support mobile devices?
Microsoft Project supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Microsoft Project integrate with?
Microsoft Project integrates with the following applications:
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft SharePoint, Skype for Business
Q. What level of support does Microsoft Project offer?
Microsoft Project offers the following support options:
FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base Software, Chat
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