Microsoft Project

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

To boost efficiency, key strategies include customized views for resource pooling and swift ticket assignments, as well as establishing calendars reflecting real-world availability with resource calendars. Use role-based planning to align skills with support needs for effective resource allocation. Easily modify allocations through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface for dynamic adjustments. The software optimizes workflows throughout the end-to-end service delivery process, providing a polished and intuitive user experience, even for those new to scheduling.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Standout features of Microsoft Project include interactive dashboards to visualize resource workloads seamlessly, capacity planning tools to model staffing requirements for effective resource management, and APIs and integrations to connect with ITSM platforms like ServiceNow for enhanced functionality. Access comprehensive reports for utilization, budgeting, and forecasting with robust reporting.

What do you dislike most about this product?

To optimize its capabilities, refining the resource allocation features and enhancing collaboration tools would empower project managers to efficiently plan and execute projects, ensuring teams are well-coordinated and delivering successful outcomes.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Microsoft Project is a powerful tool for improving efficiency. Its resource management tools provide IT service desks with essential visibility and control to optimize staff utilization. The software seamlessly integrates with other systems to streamline workflows.

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.