Cesar FiestasTechnical Project Leader| Intuitive ProjectsNewport Beach, Ca, United States
Team,
Many comments and reviews can speak about the traditional Microsoft Project software in the internet but what is your expert and professional opinion about MS project.
How many of you respected members currently use it?
Is MS project flexible enough to handle all type of projects?
What about its features?
What about price?
Would you recommend MS project to other project managers?
Do you have a favorite project management tool and why? Saving Changes...
reflection on life: you get what you pay for Saving Changes...
EMMANUEL OKORIEPM II| PROJECT PORT NIG LTDIgando, La, Nigeria
Ms Project is quite useful and helpful.easy to learn and use quickly compared to Oracle Primavera
I will gladly recommend it to PMs Saving Changes...
Vladimir LiberzonR&D Director| Spider Project TeamMoscow, Russian Federation
Depends on the industry, project management requirements and project management maturity.
MS project does not meet many requirements that exist in construction and manufacturing projects (managing volumes of work, resource productivity, application of the corporate norms, team and independent resource assignments, multiple dependencies between two activities and a lot more).
Besides, it creates poor resource constrained schedules, shows wrong floats in the leveled schedules and has few scheduling options.
The list of its shortages is too long for the forum post.
I expect that it is useful in IT for management of small teams and manual leveling. But still these projects also require project risk simulation absent in MS Project. Saving Changes...
Peter RapinSubject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent ConsultantOntario, Canada
I have two comments not yet addressed in the posts: 1) its easy to use the basic program, limited training required to create a basic CPM schedule although the more complex stuff may take a bit more effort. and 2) near everyone seems to have some knowledge of it, have access to it and can use the rudimentary functions.
Primavera, the only other competing product I am familiar with, seems to intimidate those just starting out. Saving Changes...
Phil AkinwaleProject Management & Leadership Speaker, Coach, Trainer & Author| PRAIZIONMesa, Az, United States
How many of you respected members currently use it?
- I do. I train it too. Certified MCTS in it from way back.
Is MS project flexible enough to handle all type of projects?
- Not "ALL" that is a big word but most. The 2016 version allows conversion for agile projects and Kanban board formats.
What about its features?
- So many. An abundance to tailor.
What about price?
- $10 per month for the very basic package, not too bad but high compared to other MS Office Products. Smartsheet is giving them a run for it though!
Would you recommend MS project to other project managers?
- Yes learn it. Scheduling using the #1 scheduling tool of choice a core skill PMs
Do you have a favorite project management tool and why?
- Kanban board on a white board (adaptable, dynamic), followed by Trello (accessibility and price) and then MS Project (great but need commitment to get good). Saving Changes...
