Microsoft Project Valuable Features
The solution is well established and runs very accurately.
The solution is very user friendly so end users are satisfied.
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Wab Nab
Sr Consultant at Norconsult Telematics
The integration between Teams and the solution is fantastic. Previously, the cloud version was not available so we kept standalone files on our PCs. Now, everything is in the cloud so we can ask Teams to update their activities in the plan which automatically reflects on everyone's plan. Team effectively cooperates with the plan without every user needing licenses for the solution.
The built-in dashboards are powerful because they show both project and overall progress.
View full review »Time tracking and budget tracking are the most valuable features of the solution.
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Microsoft Project
April 2024
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It's great for project planning and monitoring.
It's very easy to use. It's plug-and-play.
The solution is stable.
It can scale well.
The UI is great. If you work with Microsoft, it's very easy to work with this.
View full review »Microsoft Project's integrated timeline is tied to the project plan almost seamlessly, and you add whatever action item or milestone you choose. All you have to do is set up a column and click on the timeline. It will automatically put it in there and allow you to choose the type, whether it's a bar or if it's a milestone, just pointing out that single milestone.
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Pascal Burume
IT consultant at Secoptrial
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is the reminder feature. This feature allows for the system to send notifications or reminders to individuals who have a task to complete once someone has finished their task. This has been especially useful in situations where multiple people are involved in a task. For example, if I have completed my task and the next person is just beginning, the system will send them a reminder to notify them of my completion. This feature has proven to be very beneficial and convenient for me in my tasks.
View full review »The most valuable feature is probably the Kanban diagram. People are familiar with the Kanban tools. When they do their scrum meetings, they have that Kanban board where you can see the different tiles for all the queries and move them from left to right. IT is familiar with that because, for development, most of the tools have that capability. It could also be more graphical, like Asana.
View full review »We value all the features. Previously, we used Jenkins for similar purposes, but Microsoft Projects works fine. We're looking to improve integration with different clusters on production and automate various aspects of software development. This includes integration for alerting, monitoring, and pricing purposes, among other things.
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reviewer1800402
Sr Project Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable features of Microsoft Project are you can create critical paths pretty easily, and you can import from an Excel spreadsheet to your task list as you create it during your working sessions with your team.
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reviewer2014785
Senior Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
The solution is tightly integrated with other Microsoft products such as SharePoint and Power Automate and also integrates with Google.
It is easy to check project costs in the solution.
Notifications provide alerts of new outages so you can move your project as needed.
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reviewer1991439
Information Technology Program Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
Being able to get a milestone schedule or a breakdown out of it is valuable. It can integrate into Visio, which is helpful.
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Paul Gruver
Sr. Project Manager at Stradley Ronon
The most valuable features of Microsoft Project are the availability of being online and within Teams. My entire team can use it and see it, versus the full Microsoft Projects, such as Project Professional, you need to have a license.
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reviewer1863798
Solutions Manager, Support Analyst at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Project integrates well with the Microsoft Office family of applications. It has plugins that interact with it and you can use it with Microsoft Teams. We can use plugins to communicate with JIRA, Projectplace, and Planview. It's not widely used in the company, of course, but it's something that can interact with the official tools that we have.
View full review »The integration between SharePoint and Power BI has been great.
The stability is good.
You can scale the solution as needed.
View full review »Microsoft Project is one of the only solutions you can use in just about any industry. It's difficult to do that with most other project management tools. There is a lot of flexibility within the product assets. Most sectors can utilize Microsoft Project successfully because it doesn't have any generic adapters. Primavera is a competitor from Oracle, and they've got adapters for some industries but not others. For example, they have adapters for construction management, so people who are on construction projects usually go for Primavera because the adapters make it easy for them to scale out a project.
With Microsoft Project, you need to do more work to get the same thing, but that is the advantage of having adapters. Adapters make it easy for certain sectors to implement their projects, but Project doesn't have that, so anybody can use it. That is the best thing about Microsoft Project
View full review »The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that the product's GUI is very good since it is very visual in nature. If you are in a project meeting and the customers want estimates of when the project will be done, I think they get the point instantly.
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Nikhil Uttarwar
Student at a university with 5,001-10,000 employees
I'm using it just for my academics, and it does the job as far as I'm concerned for this use case. We are just using what is relevant to the course, and that's it.
The setup is straightforward.
Once you understand the solution a bit, it becomes easy to work with.
The solution is stable.
It can scale.
View full review »The Gantt chart view is great. It shows all activities, and the planning of durations is very easy. We can see our suppliers and everything.
The solution is stable.
It's scalable.
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Itti Jiwattayakul
Head of IT at ssofin
The product is very easy to use. It makes it easy to present projects as well.
It's an easy solution to set up.
The solution can scale.
It is stable.
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Prakasa Anantia
Engineer at Advanced Military Maintenance Repair & Overhaul Center (AMMROC)
Microsoft Project offers comprehensive project overviews and the ability to rate down what we have and what we need in terms of software.
View full review »The daily tracker is valuable because once you set it up, the dynamic teams can go and implement the project. Additionally, we can track the progress of what is being done. We can know the dates of tasks, when, and if there are deployment issues.
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reviewer1548543
SVP, Emerging Data Platforms at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The standard project planning features and charts are most valuable.
View full review »We use Microsoft Project for any project executions, like assigning the resource, listing out the task, and following up on the timeline. Microsoft Project is used to track the project delivery and the project management.
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Yemisrach Asnake
IT Project Manager at Awash International Bank
I find all the features of the solution valuable.
View full review »The most useful feature is to link sub-tasks to the main group.
The setup is pretty simple.
It is stable, and the performance is good.
It can scale well.
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KevinHammond
Systems Engineer at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
The solution is very useful for project planning.
The solution is extremely stable.
The solution can handle large-scale projects.
I'm totally confident that somebody that uses it more frequently and more deeply than I do certainly is aware of the features and functions in it that I just don't use. It's user-friendly, rudimentarily. I'm just creating tasks, linking tasks in terms of predecessors and successors, adding duration to the task, adding resources to the tasks, and coming up with the logical flow and the end dates. That's how I use it. And, in that sense, it's very easy to use.
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reviewer723726
Systems Software Specialist III at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
Overall, the solution has been so much better than the previous project management tool we had been using.
It's very easy to select the projects. It's so easy to save the project, task, and hours that I want. You don't have to think about it.
The user interface is so clean. The previous EPM product was so hard to understand in terms of the user interface.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is planning.
View full review »I use Microsoft Project to manage project timelines.
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Luis Miguel Molinero
CEO at Alce Ingenieria
What I find the most valuable about Microsoft Project is the fact that nearly everyone is familiar with it and understands how to use it. This enables us to use the tool with different customers or partners.
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Abdul Faheem
Global sales head at MEPCSA
The functionality is great.
Microsoft Project is good overall. However, I especially like the reporting tools, which are visual tools and offer visual reports. The visual reports is what I like about Microsoft Projects.
The initial setup is straightforward.
View full review »The user interface is simple and it helps me in planning what needs to be accomplished.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is status reporting. Microsoft Project is easy to use and has a user-friendly UI.
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reviewer1553769
Director, Technology Transformation at a healthcare company with 11-50 employees
The ability to create tasks and structure them and give them hierarchy.
They now have MS project Online and they have two levels, so it's easier to access what you need and to choose specifically what you'll use. You can start at a lower level, for example, and be more cost-effective and move up if it suits you.
It's easy to set up.
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Paul Gruver
Sr. Project Manager at Stradley Ronon
It comes with our Office 365.
We started using it and we stopped using LiquidPlanner.
I am most comfortable using Microsoft Project just because I have used it for so long, but we are still trying to figure out the new version at the moment.
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Michael Barg
Principal Consultant at Lexington Consulting
MS Project's resource leveling capability is beneficial. We like this feature. We want to be able to expand tasks and look at different resources and task usage. It is good at assigning tasks to teams.
It's generally compliant with the Project Management Institute approach to project management, which means MS Project helps us be more uniform and consistent in conducting each project.
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reviewer1295010
IT Lifecycle Projects Manager at a outsourcing company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Project is scheduling. The solution is useful on a daily basis.
View full review »The solution makes it very easy to plan and has great customization capabilities.
The setup is very simple and straightforward.
It is stable.
It's a scalable product, especially the online version.
There's a lot of great documentation available online. Users can teach themselves to use the product.
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reviewer1609929
Operation Project Manager at a retailer with 51-200 employees
It can auto-connect based on the dates, which makes it easy. It auto-assigns people, and when you're starting to type in, it auto-fills and populates for you, which is great. It provides little time savers when you're typing everything out. It is just like, "Oh, I can just click from a dropdown." Those types of features are really great, and this is where it kind of gets a little bit intuitive. At the same time, if you don't like what it is doing, it is easy to change it.
I like using it just because it is easy to use. It is pretty user-friendly and easy to figure out. It is definitely one of the better ones out there.
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reviewer2145327
Strategic Consultant at a government with 10,001+ employees
The reporting and national resource capacity planning are the most valuable features.
View full review »The tool has a simple and excellent approach.
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ValeryTezo
Senior ICT Consultant/Project Manager at Qualisys
It is very easy to deploy.
The solution is stable.
Microsoft offers good support.
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reviewer1800135
Managing Director at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The tool's most valuable feature is scheduling.
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Carlos Sanz Gómez
Consultant and Operation Manager at ATOS
I like that I can change the task and include different resources related to the task.
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Payal Verna
Delivery Manager of EPM
Most importantly, there are three aspects that I have seen most beneficial:
- Project tracking: This really helps the users as to where they are with each of the projects, and what are the satatus details within those projects.
- Resource utilization: Most of the time you do not know how your resources are aligned. You cannot take up projects because you do not know whether this set of resources are available to you within that particular time frame. If you have all your resources within the enterprise environment, just one click and you are able to see that this resource is available during a specific time. So, I can pick up this project and assign this resource.
- Cost: Most of the time, we're unable to note exactly how much cost has gone into the project, because some of the numbers go into the documents that we put in, but the real numbers are really not captured all the time. Here, you will be able to capture your manpower cost, your material costs, your travel costs, and any other costs that's associated with your project and see that as direct impact on your project progress. Half of the time you might have a certain budget for it, but because of mismanagement within the project, the increase of scope and other such reasons, you end up spending more than what the budget really was approved for you. You are able to capture and see: financial status, usual status and project status.
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Jamie Priestly
Project Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
The look and feel is familiar for users of the Microsoft Office Suite of applications. It is pretty straightforward to use. If you are not from a professional scheduling background, you could open it up and you would see how to do some pretty basic things without too much training.
It's most useful feature is that it interfaces with Project Server which enables a whole portfolio or enterprise perspective across the organization.
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reviewer1462419
IT Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees
The reporting features are quite strong. Being able to do team reports and find out what work is pending, what work needs to be done are key in my day-to-day management of the team. The earned value analysis capabilities and critical path capabilities inside the tool help me make sure that I'm keeping the projects on track.
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KHALED MILES
Production of pharmaceutical products at khaled.miles@labosalem.com
Microsoft Project is easy to use and helps our teams visualize the evolution of our projects.
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reviewer1600185
Manager - Operations Advisory (Finance transformation and performance improvement) at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Microsoft Project is user-friendly and easy to use to do very complex project plans.
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reviewer1584720
IT Project Manager at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
The roadmap functionality is very nice. All the dependencies and timelines are there.
The board mode and the list of tasks are very handy to have in front of me. It looks very similar to a Trello board. It's very easy to navigate and understand.
The stability is very good.
Technical support has been very helpful.
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reviewer896880
General Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The running time on the user interface is very good. We love, in general, the usability and the user interface. It's quite intuitive and easy to use.
The pricing is pretty good on the enterprise agreement we have.
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reviewer2051748
Advisor - Strategic Affairs at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
The features I find the most valuable are scheduling and reporting. I mostly do short projects that last three to six months. These are simple projects with a limited team of three to five members. We do not even do updates through the application. We do updates through meetings.
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reviewer1663461
Utilities Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
It is easy to use and pretty intuitive. User interfaces have stayed the same for the most part for the last 20 years. So, there is a familiarity.
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reviewer1500081
Unemployed at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
It served the purpose. It was pretty user-friendly.
View full review »The solution provides a better project view with the help of Gantt charts. As well as the resource planning features help us streamline tasks efficiently.
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Ahmed ElShimy
IT Superintendent at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
A lot of valuable features have been added in the last three years, including scheduling automation and intelligence.
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reviewer1537032
Technical Project Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I use all of the features that are there. There are quite a few that are very helpful.
It makes it easier for me to project manage.
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Jeffrey Bloom
Sr. Enterprise & Project Portfolio Manager/Consultant, Master Scheduler, Enterprise Architect at Jeffrey A. Bloom
Dependencies (not typically effectively used in "Agile" techniques) allow understanding of actual project status and challenges.
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Kamal Hussein
Sr. Project Manager
The ability to break down project phases is most valuable. Being able to align the tasks and reporting with project milestones and progress is also valuable.
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reviewer2028732
Sr. Account Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The reporting features are quite useful.
It's a very fast product.
We find it very simple to use. It has a nice interface that aligns with Excel and Word.
The product has an easy initial setup process.
The solution is stable.
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reviewer1625655
IT Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
I have found that the chart reporting feature is very helpful for us currently.
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reviewer1497213
Founder at a computer software company with 1-10 employees
In my experience, this solution is one of the best for the waterfall management model. You are able to analyze, allocate tasks easily, chart, use different kinds of graphs, and the atmosphere is something similar to other Microsoft Office products. Having similarity to Office is the reason why it is easy to use. The majority of people already know how to use those pieces of software.
There are plenty of features in this solution.
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reviewer2068017
Director of Digital Transformation at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is easy to use.
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reviewer1330623
Founder & Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
It is a complete and all-rounded enterprise product. From a portfolio management perspective and an individual project management perspective, it is a corporate-wide project management product. It can be used for resource planning, financial planning, task planning, etc.
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reviewer1424409
Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
There are some valuable tools on the solution that are actually free.
The tasks are quite detailed on the solution.
You are able to easily manage other software, and, for a particular task item, you can schedule it however you like. It's quite flexible in terms of managing everything.
The solution is very complete. It makes it a great option for project managers and they can use it extensively in almost any organizational setup.
The mapping is pretty good and that's our primary requirement. Sometimes the customers and stakeholders have their own reports, but that's okay and it works for us. Most of our reporting is based on sprints and Microsoft Tool can help us map this. Most of our reporting is a combination of JIRA and Microsoft.
We can code it to JIRA and can see the total movement there as well.
We can easily integrate it into Confluence. It's pretty seamless.
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Darwin Reynell Nava Fernández
Project Leader at Plataforma de Comunicaciones Platcomm - Cibersys
- Application of hierarchies on activities
- Reassignment of resources in case the program detects an excessive workload on a particular resource
- Comparison with the baselines
- The possibility of automating repetitive activities utilizing "Visual Basic for applications"
- Robustes in the calculation of costs
- It's easy to use.
- Combined with a project management methodology such as PMI for example, it is effective for monitoring and control.
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reviewer1308864
Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It is very stable. I haven't had any kind of issues with it. It is also very scalable.
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reviewer2118849
Technical Project Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
One of the best features is that it is easy to use.
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reviewer1234485
Professor, Info Technology at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature is the Auto resource leveling tool because it shows students that often, expert resources get over-scheduled, and that dealing with the issue by just using the auto-resource leveling tool would have a large impact on the delivery date.
The critical path analysis reporting and tools are helpful because they show students the importance of understanding which tasks are on the critical path, and how a delay in any of those tasks would impact the overall schedule. It also shows where tasks that were not on the critical path had some buffer, and resources on those tasks could be re-allocated to other tasks.
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MalayarasanMahalingam
Project Planning & Controls Specialist at a consultancy
I find the planning features the most valuable to me.
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Martin Nwoga
Business Director at CWG Plc
The most valuable features of this solution are dependency management, milestone progress, multiple resource rates, and RAG views.
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reviewer1395372
Senior Business Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable features of this solution are the scheduling, managing the resources, budgeting, tracking the progress, viewing the progress, reporting, and it is very easy to use.
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reviewer1420863
MD at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature of this solution is time management.
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Microsoft Project
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Project. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,415 professionals have used our research since 2012.