Microsoft Project

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

Predecessors function, efforts loading analysis, feasibility to manage muitiple baseline dates

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Feels like a simple excel like tool with all the required features to run a project end to end along with the planning of tasks, resources, cost and milestones, dependencies etc.

What do you dislike most about this product?

A bit difficult to learn initially as some complexity is there to master the product

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Good tool to have detailed view of the project with control over the tasks, resources and timelines

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management allows you to track your project and find the best path to success. It allows us to visualize the path forward and see what needs to be done now.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Project Portfolio management helps to easily make different portfolios against the strategy of the business and consider the cost against the resource constraint attractive dashboard to view reports and Easy customization . Along with this we can manage our project activities at one place.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The suite needs to mature further specific to EPCI industry and also needs to build risk matrix like Primavera and other costing tools for better representation of the Budgets.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Very flexible and integrated into the Microsoft suite, which makes it easy to use, build cost competitively, and analyze deviations. As we are mostly working of various Microsoft tools (Microsoft 365, Dynamics, etc) we get great collaboration and productivity.

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

what distinguishes this is the richness of its management. it is better because it factors in more than just the name on a task; it considers their availability, their skill set and their cost. vs tools like asana it provides a much clearer insight into if your plan is even viable. it’s a tool for enabling you to handle the realities of out there in order to actually succeed with your projects.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

i really love how professional the gantt charts themselves look and the flexibility to tailor them for different audiences. the built-in templates are quite good as well and provide a excellent starting point for many common types of projects. i love how it works within power bi for even more advanced data visualization and reporting. it's one of the most mature and well thought out systems I've used, that can handle just about anything you want to throw at it. it is very impressive software.

What do you dislike most about this product?

it can be a little bit slow to pick up all of that info on the instructor side. /users may ironically find if they arent using it on a regular basis that they can forget how to do certain things. it’s a medium you definitely need to keep using regularly to stay on top of it and get the most out of.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

this is a book that everyone who is trying to manage with scarce resources needs. it gives you the information necessary to make intelligent decisions and keep things moving forward. i’d recommend it to anyone who wants a powerful, stable system for use in their everyday work.