Microsoft Project

Planning and executing project easily

Comments: Overall, i am still satisfied in using this software to managing and managing our collaborative project and it really helpful for us to tracking and finish our project in the allocated time. It has increase our effectiveness in planning and executing a project.

Pros:

Microsoft Project is really good in planning and executing my project that my team and my colleague collaborate. It let us to distributing task among us and be clear which member are responsible for the task and avoid confusing while executing the project. The Gantt chart really helpful in planning the project time of completion.

Cons:

You will need quite a considerable time of training to properly get expert and get comfortable in using this project management software to the maximum usage. Some of the feature or tools is quite hard to be understand the usage and the manual is not explaining the tools in details.

Best tool for project management

Pros:

This software is very user friendly, being able to create and edit projects easily. Since it is from Microsoft, integrating other Microsoft tools is very easy and useful. I personally integrate Microsoft Teams with Microsoft Project in order to enhance the collaboration in this software.

Cons:

As an industrial engineering student, I’ve been using project management softwares for very long time. However, Microsoft Project is not the best one to start with because of all the features and tasks it can do. I would recommend starting with a simpler software and then move on to this more complete software.

Easy to access project tool.

Comments: I use Microsoft's Project to track the individual items that I need to manage for a major project. The best parts of MS Project are that it evolved into the easiest to use Gant chart generator out there. My personal business calls for me to track several programs at one time and as an Instructional Designer/Architect, I tend to "chunk" projects into smaller, easier to accomplish bites. The Project lets me do that and helps me track my progress in completing the chunks of the larger project that I have to complete. I like that the interface allows me to enter the data about the project into what looks like a spreadsheet. The software then generates a Gant chart and helps me track where I might have finished ahead of schedule or where I might slip if I don't pay attention. My main gripes about MS Project involve a lack of flexibility. I can't easily rename column headings because they're locked into Microsoft's view of what a project should look like. This is only a minor annoyance. That said, at times I often expect MS Project to behave more like MS Excel where I can manipulate and edit cells with ease, which you can't because the columns are locked to function only one way. Finally, I would like to have row separators that let me know where one project ends and another begins. I do this because I'd like to have a tool that lets me view all my projects in one place. Changing dates is also an annoyance because the date fields always default to the point in time in which you started the project and so if you expect the date fields to default to "today's date", you might have to make adjustments. It would be nice if the date defaulted as expected (today's date). Tips:
1. You can roughly rename the titles of cells, but the contents will always function according to the locked nature of the cells.
2. If like me, you want to track multiple projects in one MS Project file, simply color code the different projects with the cell highlight function.

Pros:

1. Ease of use 2. Fast data entry 3. Visible Gant chart

Cons:

1. Columns are locked to function only one way 2. Date fields don't default to today's date 3. No means to separate one project from another

Project Planning Made Easy

Comments: It is a beautiful Planning and Scheduling Tool that helps all size of organizations in carrying out/managing their day 2 day and long term projects.

Pros:

If one knows the Planning and Scheduling Concepts, it is extremely easy to use this software to carry out planning/scheduling.

Cons:

It has its own proprietary format. Though can be saved as PDF and shared but it would be better if it can be opened directly in different formats.

Project Management Planning and Scheduling Solution

Pros:

Very helpful solution for my existing projects, i have managed my own tasks for project using Microsoft Project and it helped to prioritize and plan my task with milestones. Monitoring is easy.

Cons:

Initial project setup was complex, expecting simple and easy solution improvement. Dashboard and insights will be best ideas for future aspect of product.