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Microsoft Project

Composite Score
8.7 /10
CX Score
9.0 /10
Category
Microsoft Project
8.7 /10

What is Microsoft Project?

Stay organized, focused, and in charge. Tackle anything from small projects to large initiatives. You may or may not be a project manager, but now you can be the boss of any project with a powerful, easy-to-use app.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Project won the following awards in the Project Management - Enterprise category

Microsoft Project Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

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95 Plan to Renew

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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Project?

2% Negative
8% Neutral
90% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Enables Productivity
  • Saves Time

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Planning and Scheduling

86

Collaboration

85

Resource Management

84

Dependency and Milestone Tracking

84

Document Management

82

Workflow Management

82

Hierarchical Task Management

82

Reporting

82

Time & Expense Tracking

82

Budget Management

82

Mobile Access

78

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Business Value Created

83

Ease of Implementation

83

Quality of Features

82

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Availability and Quality of Training

81

Ease of IT Administration

81

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

80

Breadth of Features

80

Ease of Data Integration

80

Ease of Customization

80

Vendor Support

79

Microsoft Project Reviews

Gavin M.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Energy
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2023

Great product. More focussed on waterfall.

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

It’s a great product that has massively improved in recent years. It caters well for waterfall projects and is starting to improve for agile.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The new Kanban boards are very helpful.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It’s needs more focus on agile project delivery.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Think about which project approaches are in use: agile / waterfall. The product caters well for both but mostly waterfall.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Shiva S.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Energy
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2023

Definitely a product with good features.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

The user-friendly interface of MS Project enables them to quickly move between grids, boards, and Gantt charts to visualize and monitor task progress as necessary. Teams that are integrated with Microsoft Teams can collaborate and share files, chat, and hold meetings. Distributed team members can make simultaneous changes to a task. Teams can stay on schedule with automated scheduling based on effort, time, and resources. Users using Power BI, which is built on the Power Platform, may design interactive dashboards to highlight key aspects of each project.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Integration Microsoft Project is almost incomparable when it comes to integrating with the market-leading Microsoft 365 Office package, which is widely used. Together with easier connectivity with Azure and other Microsoft platforms, the project management software works flawlessly with Microsoft Teams, Skype, Power BI, and SharePoint. Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft programs have a ribbon interface. Dependability Among project management solutions, Microsoft Project software is a pioneer.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Needs Training Over time, MS Project has gotten more user-friendly, but one of its drawbacks is that novice users may still find it intimidating. In order to avoid becoming lost in Project's rich but complicated UX, which can result in underuse and missing big-picture goals, persons who are propelled into project management jobs out of necessity or as informal project managers will need to invest a significant amount of time in training. Cost Constraints Software for managing projects from Microsoft is accessible both on-premises and in the cloud.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The well-known scheduling capabilities in Microsoft Project allow users to list tasks, assign them to team members, and specify information like length and due dates. Project managers can manage schedules using a variety of views, including grid view, board view, and timeline/Gantt chart view. It was designed with collaboration in mind and supports co-authoring so that project teams and other stakeholders can update and modify task lists, project timelines, job dependencies, and task priorities. Teams can also use MS Project to submit timesheets because it tracks both project and non-project time and connects it to billing or payroll.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

anglina c.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Biotechnology
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2023

A very helpful tool for project management.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

It has nice integration with other Microsoft products, like Office365 and Apis for integration with databases and other systems. These factors are mutually beneficial and subject to changes throughout the process, without this implying a rupture between designing and execution.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Microsoft Project permits me to organize projects and it conjointly provides me with the tools I need. It’s pretty straightforward to use especially if you have experience in using different Microsoft products.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There aren’t several negative to be said regarding Microsoft Project. The software system does what I expect it to do, it’s reasonably easy software if anything maybe some additional customization choices is often good.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

This tool has everything that’s required to manage a project. Right from the basic constraints of the Iron triangle, like Schedule, price & Scope, to further tools like Resource Management, Risk Management, Procurement, Stakeholders, and so forth Microsoft project could be a smart planning tool at the baseline timeframe of the schedule. It helps with planning at the start stages of a contract. Effective baseline tool. It is an amazing tool with a lot of helpful features.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features
  • Efficient Service

Cons

  • Security Frustrates

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