Microsoft Project Reviews

• To manage projects in the area of telecommunications and infrastructure

• The control of time and money is paramount in today's world, with this tool it is possible to assign activities, resources, periods of duration, calculation of costs, calculation of deviations, reporting, among others.

• The monitoring, control and corrective actions are possible with this tool.

• Lifting of work plans
• Assignment and effective control of the resources of the organization
• The establishment of baselines allows the project leader to take corrective actions in case of deviations.
• It ensures quality and efficiency in each activity.
• Control of project costs.

• 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.

• The productivity of resources

• The tool allows the allocation of resources to the activities, however, if I want to measure the productivity of someone in particular, it is not so simple.

We use the solution to manage the timeline for projects.

The solution is easy to use.

The solution's portfolio management and project management features need enhancement.

The solution is stable. I rate its stability a nine.

The solution is easily scalable for new versions and features. I rate its scalability an eight.

I have used different products before. Later, I decided to switch to Microsoft as it is user-friendly.

The solution's initial setup is easy. It takes a few hours to complete.

The solution is expensive. I rate its pricing as a nine. We purchase a yearly basis license for it.

The solution is easy to use but needs to be more comprehensive. I rate it as a seven.

We use the solution for its Gantt diagrams and resource planning features.

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.

The solution could be easier to use. We require some assistance in case of tedious tasks.

We have been using the solution for many years.

The solution is stable. I rate its stability as an eight.

We have around ten users of the solution in our organization.

The solution's initial setup was straightforward.

Our in-house team, including engineers and system administrators, implemented the solution.

I rate the solution as a seven.

My primary use case is teaching technology students project management.

Students have benefited from learning the de-facto standard for managing projects used by all the major companies worldwide.

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.

I would like to have more access to templates and tools that could be used to teach project management best practices.

I have been using this solution for twenty years.

My primary use case is distribution projects.

It is a user-friendly solution that we can easily understand. We can analyze a critical task, create a mitigation plan, add different calendars, control entire projects, scheduling and the like.

I find the planning features the most valuable to me.

I find that MS Project has limited control in comparison to other solutions in the same sphere.

We have had some crashes in the past. 

Tech support is quick to respond to our inquiries.

I have previous experience with Primavera. 

We have our own implementation team that took care of the setup. I was not personally involved. I know that the deployment time takes roughly three weeks.

We use this solution for project management, resource scheduling, earned value and benefits realization.

This solution has improved our planning, scheduling, resource optimization, and financial reporting.

The most valuable features of this solution are dependency management, milestone progress, multiple resource rates, and RAG views.

I would like to see the inclusion of multi-currency support.

It's mainly for project management or portfolio projects, managing schedules and workloads, and assigning tasks.

One of the best features is that it is easy to use.

It is positioned at the more high end. Sometimes it's more complicated than we need, so we look at other solutions that might be cheaper. So, the pricing could be better.

I've been using it for around twelve months. We are using the latest version.

It is a stable solution.

It is a scalable solution.

The customer support is good. I am very satisfied. 

The initial setup is straightforward. It's just downloading the initial file version, and it can be done on the same machine. It took me half a day to deploy it. 

It can be done in-house or with the help of a third-party integrator or consultant.

I have seen ROI.

It is a subscription-based model.

It's a handy tool for budget management.

Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.

The primary use case of this solution is to maintain projects within our enterprise.

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.

This solution needs more customization.

I have been using this solution for approximately five years.

This solution is stable.

We have not had any performance issues within our enterprise with any of the scaling we have done.

We have more than 50 users and a team of six to maintain it.

At this time, we don't have the need to increase usage.

We have not had the need to contact technical support, as we have not experienced any down-time.

Previously, it was all manual work and wanted it to be on a digital platform and went with Microsoft.

The initial setup is straightforward.

This is a good product and I can recommend it to others.

I would rate this solution an eight out ten.