Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
One of the disadvantages of using MS Project is the difficulty of sharing that information across to team members and stakeholders. We could export to Excel, sync with SharePoint, or export to PDF. There were built-in reporting, but still not fully matured.
With this rollout, MS Project is now part of the 0365 ecosystem, integrated with Teams for collaboration and PowerBI for reporting. How amazing is that! The UX has also been updated to provide a simplified and cleaner experience.
What are your thoughts?! I am actually a bit disappointed my current role does not require using the tool but still look forward to seeing this blossom and getting feedback from the community.
Product Operations Program ManagerBarcelona, Cataluña, Spain
Was not aware, appreciate the heads up. Saving Changes...
Andrew SoswaTechnology leader| Leading global financial institutionElk Grove Village, Il, United States
I think it's getting overpriced like Disney. Standalone basic is $150/year but the version that you want for yourself and the team is "Project plan 3" because it allows timesheet submission, resource management, & reporting at $400/year per person.
Can an enterprise manage effectively projects with these costs? Saving Changes...
Manuel PerezProject Management Coordinator| Las Vegas Valley Water DistrictNorth Las Vegas, Nv, United States
MS Project still lags when compared to Oracle's Primavera. But for small simple projects requiring collaboration this version will do. If you want to manage portfolios and programs, or include workflows with forms, then this is not the way to go. Saving Changes...
For standalone usage, the limited number of meaningful changes between 2013 and 2019 is unfortunate and between 2016 and 2019 is downright embarrassing.
I taught an MSP class this week and when I was asked what was the most impactful change I felt between the two versions when NOT using an enterprise/online version of the tool, I was embarrassed to say that it was the ability to identify predecessors and successors based on a drop-down list! As if we really needed one more method of defining dependencies - there were at least four methods already in place!
If MS wanted to improve the product, they should address such basic deficiencies as renaming fields like "Peak" to "Calculated" when referring to work resource units...
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