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What is Microsoft Project?

Microsoft Project helps you keep track of everything you need to run successful projects, even when working remotely. Collaborate and work with remote teams anywhere, streamline processes, optimize tasks and resources, engage across different functional teams, keep track of all associated costs, and customize visual reports for actionable insights. Familiar Office tools and pre-built templates allow you to kick off projects quickly to get more done while saving your business time and money.

Who Uses Microsoft Project?

With Project, anyone can get started quickly and collaborate with remote teams anywhere.

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Reviews of Microsoft Project

Average score

Overall
4.4
Ease of Use
4.1
Customer Service
4.1
Features
4.4
Value for Money
4.1

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Andrés J
Andrés J
Director in Colombia
Verified LinkedIn User
E-Learning, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Good alternative, but a bit pricey

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: As an experienced user, I've never had any major issue. The bottom line is that it works, and it does its job. I just wish they will upgrade the experience, in regards to interface design.

Pros:

For many years, it was the de facto software for project management and if you were in the field, you had to use it. So many older users like me, use it mostly because of this reason. Besides that, it's well designed and a solid alternative. For experienced users, is one of the best tools in the market. And in this case, it's quite easy to start a new project.

Cons:

It looks like Microsoft Project got stuck in time. Newer alternatives are easier to use, and the design is prettier. Microsoft Project like other Office apps, are just to boxed into the Office style apps. In other words, it lacks innovations and doesn't help the users' creativity.

Norzihan
Norzihan
Recruiter in Malaysia
Verified LinkedIn User
Telecommunications, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Saves time in planning and collaborating project

4.0 4 years ago

Comments: This software has help me and my colleague to create shortcuts to planning, creating and deploying project.
The task can be marked with time frame and the system will send notification if the task is still not completed before the due date.

Pros:

I really like template that are provided by Microsoft Project, it is highly customized to my project objective and my liking. The feature that i use the most can be pinned on the dashboard interface and keep it organized. Most of the user are using it, and there are no issue to shares the project file to my other colleague and they can open it without any compatibility problem.

Cons:

Microsoft Project is quite pricey as we can't subscribe only the Microsoft Project itself, we have to buy all the software on the Microsoft suite to use it. If only they can let user to separately subscribing it, more user can will use it. Other thing that i dislike is, no video tutorial provided to teach user how to use the feature in the software.

MA. CELINE
Office Engineer in Philippines
Civil Engineering, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Microsoft Project is your long-time project management tool

4.0 2 months ago

Comments: Overall, Microsoft Project is a great choice as a project management tool. And it's feature of being accessed while offline is a plus for this software.

Pros:

I like most about Microsoft Project are the features of effectively managing budgets and allows me to make project reports and analyze information helpful on making decisions.

Cons:

It has a compatibility issues when team is using different versions or tools, and collaborative work is a little challenging and hassle.

Jon
Manager in US
Information Technology & Services, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Microsoft Project is helpful

3.0 3 weeks ago New

Comments: Overall, my experience with this application is okay. The project application does exactly what you would expect and has been important to our complex implementation plans.

Pros:

It's a good tool to organize your most complex project plans. The application has a lot of features.

Cons:

The learning curve on this project is massive. It is not as simple as other Microsoft projects. Collaboration on project plans can be a little messy.

Aziz
Manager in US
Animation, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

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5.0 3 months ago

Comments: Customization :user praise the ability to tailor dashboard reports and veiwe to suit their needs

Pros:

Gantt chart for easy project visualization

Cons:

Easy to use and navigate ever for beginners