Microsoft Project Reviews

I am a utilities consultant, and I use it within the utility industry for managing different types of projects, such as for implementing a new system or new processes.

I don't know how it directly benefits our business per se because it helps our clients.

It is easy to use and pretty intuitive. User interfaces have stayed the same for the most part for the last 20 years. So, there is a familiarity.

Its reporting and its integration with some of the other related systems should be improved. It is not very easy to integrate.

Its scalability is not so good for the most part.

I have been using this solution for altogether 20 years.

It is pretty reliable. I can't recall any issues.

It is not so good for the most part. It is good for what we needed it for. Occasionally, we needed to be able to scale it up, but it is not as effective as some of the other systems.

We have around 30 project managers who are using it. We're all dispersed across the US, and it is being used extensively.

We have no experience with them.

I've used other project management solutions. Its simplicity and ease of use are the primary drivers.

The initial setup was straightforward. I didn't do it. Our IT guys did it, but once they got the process done, it took less than an hour.

We just did it ourselves. For its maintenance, we require probably a fourth of a person. 

As with anything, there is training, and there are standards. Make sure you have enough training and make sure you've established enterprise standards.

It is reliable, and a lot of people know it. I would give it a seven out of 10.

We use it for IT project management. It is mainly used for managing tasks.

The standard project planning features and charts are most valuable.

When a project plan becomes huge, it is painful to arrange and structure the project in Microsoft Project.

Currently, you require a separate product for managing agile projects, and people are using Jira and Rally to manage stories in agile. Primarily, on the software development side, people are kind of moving away from Microsoft Project.

I have been using this solution for 15 years. 

It is stable but not for huge project plans.

I am using its desktop version. They also have an online version where you can collaborate and do things like that. It is Office 365, which I don't use. 

In terms of users, around 10,000 people might be using it. Its users include service delivery managers, project managers, and business analysts.

I never had to use tech support for Microsoft Project.

I have used a competing product that was free and open-source, but it didn't have as many features as Microsoft Project.

We are kind of migrating to Jira for the agile model because we mostly have agile-based developments. All task stories and other things are managed in Jira. We are not using Microsoft Project that much now. It is only being used for project planning and for creating task dependencies.

In my organization, it is already packaged and available. 

I would advise others to learn about project planning. There is good enough information available online on Microsoft's website.

I would rate Microsoft Project an eight out of ten. It is good at doing what it is supposed to do. 

We primarily use the solution to enter our status and our time. For each task that we're doing, we have to enter a monthly status. It's for project management.

Overall, the solution has been so much better than the previous project management tool we had been using.

It's very easy to select the projects. It's so easy to save the project, task, and hours that I want. You don't have to think about it. 

The user interface is so clean. The previous EPM product was so hard to understand in terms of the user interface.

Once we commit our status, changing it is hard. Sometimes, I may make a mistake about a holiday or something. I may not remember that there was a particular day that was a holiday and I may enter time on that day as if I worked. Sometimes I want to fix it. It would be ideal if the holidays were pre-installed so that we wouldn't make that mistake, that would be ideal. It should allow us to set it so that we cant enter time on holidays. 

I have only explored maybe 5% of Microsoft Project as we're only using it to log things. I haven't seen a lack of features.

I've been using the solution for about one year at this point.

I haven't had any issues with stability. There aren't bugs or glitches, at least, none that I have witnessed. It doesn't crash or freeze. Overall, it's quite good.

Every employee has to use this solution, and we are a sizable organization. Likely, we have thousands of users on this product.

The solution is on the cloud, and therefore it can scale so well. We have our own internal cloud, and Microsoft has a cloud as well. If a company wants to expand it, it should be able to do so with relative ease.

I can't speak to the quality of Microsoft's technical support. I've never contacted them, so I can't say how knowledgeable or responsive they are. We have our own internal support. We are a very big organization, so we have an internal support team that assists us if we need help. They may reach out to Microsoft directly, however, I have no knowledge of their interactions.

We did previously use a different project management solution. I've only seen the user interface. It's my understanding that it is called EPM, or something to that effect. I like Microsoft's solution much more. It's a better product.

I only use the solution. I did not have to set it up. I can't speak to how easy or difficult it is to do this as I am just an end-user in the company.

I'm an end-user and customer. My organization is a large company and we're a big customer of Microsoft.

I don't know which version of the solution I'm currently using.

My life has improved so much with Microsoft Project. It works extraordinarily well.

Overall, I would rate it at a nine out of ten.

Microsoft Project helps to manage our projects.

We can't say that there has been an improvement. We are trying to get to that point, but we are only into it with the new version for a month.

It comes with our Office 365. 

We started using it and we stopped using LiquidPlanner. 

I am most comfortable using Microsoft Project just because I have used it for so long, but we are still trying to figure out the new version at the moment.

The new version has made it a bit more complicated. We are trying to synchronize Project Online and Planner.

In Team Planner, there is supposed to be a way that you can sync your tasks in the Project Plan with Planner so that the project team doesn't necessarily need to use Microsoft Project. They can see what tasks are assigned to them, do them and update the status.

But, we haven't been able to figure that out yet.

They can make it easier to streamline the product. 

When using Microsoft Project, the desktop and Planner don't seem to talk to each other as seamlessly as I would hope. It is possible that it is a user error and we have not configured it correctly. My IT team is new to it as well.

I have had approximately 20 years of experience with Microsoft Project.

I just started using the latest version a little over a month ago.

I have the desktop app and on the cloud.

At the moment we have an issue with synchronization with the planner. We are trying to get it to work by watching YouTube videos and the IT director has been working with the vendor to see how to get the functionality to work.

It's unknown if we need a plug-in or not. It is difficult to decipher whether or not it's us or them because we are so green with the product.

From what I can tell, there is a lot that you can do with it. Power BI, reporting, SharePoint, and Teams are all supposed to connect in some way, but, it's not as intuitive as I thought it would have been.

There isn't a lot that is available that tells you how to do this. You have to figure it out which is what we are trying to do. I wish that it was a bit more straightforward.

Currently, there are two of us who use Microsoft Project because we are trying to get it configured in a way that makes sense for our organization before we can bring in the rest of the team that may need to use it.

We have not used technical support.

Previously, we were using LiquidPlanner.

LiquidPlanner is a tool that you would use in an ideal situation for project management, which almost never happens. I can't get my organization to punch a time clock, and that is what LiquidPlanner is.

The initial setup is a bit more complex than I would have hoped for or that I am used to. Again, it is possible that it's a lack of know-how and education with this product.

It gets expensive when having to add all of the plugins and everything that you need.

I would suggest using an expert. Get an implementation vendor to set it up for you.

This solution probably does everything that I need it to do, but I just don't know how to do it yet.

I like Microsoft Project and it does everything that I need it to do, but it doesn't do everything. That's Microsoft; they always get you to about 80% there, and then you need some type of plugin or API. It never quite does everything.

I would rate Microsoft Project an eight out of ten.

Our company uses Microsoft Project primarily for project planning and milestone tracking.

The tool helps us to check milestones. After doing tasks, our team updates them. Regarding functionalities in Microsoft Project, the number one feature is reminders. With so many projects, sometimes you forget; some projects might slip up or disappear. This feature is very useful.

Additionally, we can track the tasks we can do within a particular project, which is another feature we use. Lastly, we use the tracking function to set deadlines and see what is being accomplished and what remains. The design team uses these features. 

The tool's integration was easy and seamless. We also use it to get a summary of the entire business.

I would like to see a direct integration of Microsoft Project with AutoCAD. It will make client presentations easy. 

I have been working with the product since 2015. 

I rate the tool's stability a nine out of ten. 

I rate the solution's scalability a six out of ten. It's a bit complex to ask some new users. In terms of scalability, for example, if you have two projects or departments you want to merge, you might face challenges. You might have to type them in manually and do manual merging. So, if something could be done to simplify this, it would be great. My company has around 15 users. 

The tool's deployment is easy. 

I rate the solution's pricing a three out of ten.                        

I rate the overall product a seven out of ten.

I use Microsoft Project to manage project timelines.

Microsoft Project should provide better documentation regarding the usage of the solution.

I have been using Microsoft Project for the past five years.

Microsoft Project is a pretty stable solution.

I rate Microsoft Project an eight out of ten for stability.

It depends on your system's RAM, but Microsoft Project is scalable. Three users use the solution in our organization.

I rate Microsoft Project an eight out of ten for scalability.

I previously used the solution called Trello.

Microsoft Project's initial setup is straightforward.

Microsoft Project was deployed by the IT team and my office administrator within thirty minutes. You can just install the solution and start using it.

The ROI with Microsoft Project is good as there's a real need for the solution.

We have to pay for a yearly license for Microsoft Project.

I would recommend Microsoft Project to other users and ask them to get trained to use the solution.

Overall, I rate Microsoft Project an eight out of ten.

We use Microsoft Project to develop IT projects for a pharmaceutical company. It helps us coordinate between teams of developers and admins. 

Microsoft Project is easy to use and helps our teams visualize the evolution of our projects.

The Microsoft license is relatively expensive. 

I have used MS Project for about five years.

I rate MS Project nine out of 10 for stability.

MS Project is scalable. Twenty-five people in my company

We had another project management solution, but we switched to Project when the company adopted 365.

Installing Microsoft Project is effortless. The initial installation took me about two or three days. It was easy to install after I took the online courses. I didn't need an integrator or a consultant. 

I rate Microsoft Project nine out of 10. 

We primarily use the product as a tracking tool. It's project management software. 

It helps us track ongoing projects in our organization. 

The reporting features are quite useful. 

It's a very fast product. 

We find it very simple to use. It has a nice interface that aligns with Excel and Word.

The product has an easy initial setup process. 

The solution is stable.

When moving resources between projects, it could be a bit more clear. For example, Primavera has a very nice, intuitive approach.

The scalability may be limited. 

We'd like the solution to be cheaper. 

I've been using the solution for ten years. 

The solution has been quite stable and reliable. There aren't bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash.

The scalability is limited. You may need a special enterprise license to scale up a lot. What we have is fixed and limited. 

We have three to ten users at this time. 

We may increase usage depending on our upcoming needs. 

Technical support is helpful. We tend to use chat or email if we need help. They're pretty responsive. 

Positive

We've only used Microsoft. We have not tried other solutions. 

The initial setup is very simple and quite straightforward. 

The cost is moderate. It's a bit costly. 

We're Microsoft users, not partners.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten. 

Our primary use case  is for project activities, planning, work breakdown structures, financial and activity-based planning.

I have found that the chart reporting feature is very helpful for us currently.

Time-based planning becomes very difficult because the big projects every task is related to each other, if you change some processes a little bit, every detail is changing.  I would like to see both Time and Team based options improved. Some financial improvements would be great.

I have been using Microsoft Project for the past ten years.

Microsoft Project is stable.

Microsoft Project is scalable.

The deployment is very easy. Follow the instructions, and you can easily install the application.

One is stand-alone deployment. It is very easy. You only purchase the product and install it on your own computer. The other one requires a more sophisticated process because that is called project server and the endpoint is similar, but the deployment part is very different because the project management server requires some more proficiency in the installation and setup.

The cost for an on-premisis-based license is a one-time fee, and the cloud-based is an annual payment plan.

I would rate Microsoft Project an eight out of ten.

I mainly use MS Project for project planning, scheduling, and tracking.

A lot of valuable features have been added in the last three years, including scheduling automation and intelligence.

In the next release, Microsoft should include cross-project integration.

I've been using Microsoft Project for seven years.

MS Project is very stable.

This is a very scalable solution.

Microsoft's technical support is moderate.

Neutral

The setup was very straightforward and took about fifteen minutes. I'd rate the ease of setting up four out of five.

I implemented in-house.

Licensing costs vary depending on the user volume. The pricing is good, I'd rate it four out of five.

MS Project is good for anyone working on project planning and looking for a handy tool to manage everything. I'd give it a rating of eight out of ten.