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Microsoft Project - Project Management Software

Microsoft Project Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

Efficient project management, from start to finish.

4.1

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Microsoft Project Reviews & Ratings

4.1

Very Good

Based on 3603 ratings & 1526 reviews

Rating Distribution

Excellent

(660)

Very Good

(622)

Good

(186)

Poor

(40)

Terible

(18)

Expert's Review

Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management is a robust and highly adaptable tool that has earned its place as a staple in the project management landscape. It shines in its versatility, offering seamless integration with Microsoft Office applications like Excel and Word, allowing users to generate detailed reports and synchronize data effortlessly. The software ...Read more

Microsoft Project pros and cons

  • Customizable and flexible, allowing adaptation to various projects and needs, particularly complex ones.

  • Seamless integration with other Microsoft tools like Excel, Word, and PowerBI, improving workflow and reporting.

  • Excellent for task tracking and timeline management, with features like Gantt charts and automated dependency setups.

  • Suitable for large-scale projects, enabling advanced resource allocation, portfolio management, and efficiency in team collaboration.

  • High subscription/license cost, with purchasing restrictions as it is no longer available outright.

  • Steep learning curve for beginners, with a need for extensive training or tutorials to master its features.

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01/27/17

3.5 out of 5

Microsoft Project Keeps Projects on Track

What do you like best? Good to keep deadlines and coordinate multiple tasks. What do you dislike? Upfront training time to learn to use the program. Recommendations to others considering the product Need training to implement. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Keeping deadlines.

01/27/17

3.5 out of 5

Great for Tasks, not for Resources

What do you like best? MS Project is great for creating and tracking tasks related to a prject. What do you dislike? The amount of effort that is required to set up Resources and track Resources is cumbersome and time consuming. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Tracking complex projects - ability to see progress and see the relationships between tasks is very helpful for tracking progress

01/27/17

3 out of 5

Best PM tool

What do you like best? Its very easy to organise projects , keep track of resources What do you dislike? It has to be integrated with other tools like primavera What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are able to plan our projects effectively

01/27/17

3 out of 5

Microsoft project - good project planning tool

What do you like best? Visualization of project flow, gantt charts Automatic linking of predecessors and successors What do you dislike? Restricted to maybe 1-2 sdlc methodologies What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Work planning for a project spanning various teams

01/27/17

3 out of 5

Project for projects

What do you like best? The ability to visualize and manage projects. What do you dislike? The learning curve - it takes a long time to learn how to use. Recommendations to others considering the product Make sure your projects are big enough to make MS Project make sense for managing and tracking projects. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Tracking and managing projects.

01/27/17

2.5 out of 5

Microsoft Project

What do you like best? Easy to use. You get resource availability, work schedule, skills everything with the software. It's sort of new to us so we are still on the learning curve but it seems really good. I'd recommend it to any company who has theses needs. What do you dislike? It crashes too often. If its a complex project, the software doesn't perform too well. It's really sort of a hassle when this occurs. Recommendations to others considering the product none What business ...

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01/27/17

2.5 out of 5

Project

What do you like best? I like the auto calculating for all of project tasks What do you dislike? When you dates start to slip, you can set a baseline and create new dates but it doesn't really give the full picture visually. Recommendations to others considering the product find a super user who is passionate about the product and use them to train others What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? It is sometimes easier to do the ...

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01/27/17

2 out of 5

Using MS Project in Higher Ed

What do you like best? Allows the user(s to trace detailed information and track project progress effectively. Provides a snapshot and critical items as well as responsibilities and and tasks to be tracked effectively. What do you dislike? Difficult to get people to use because it appears bulky and hard to maintain for the novice project manager. It is not part of our enterprise level MS Office Suite so we have to ask to have it loaded therefore staff is typically wanting to use it. ...

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01/26/17

4.5 out of 5

Microsoft Project Portfolio

What do you like best? This is hands down one of the best project management tools on the market right now. If you are either a project manager, this is a tool that will change the way you work. It has all the features you need to successfully plan and manage every step of a project from initiation to execution. The best features are the Gnatt Chart that shows you the overall duration and timeline of the project, and can be adjusted as the project begins. There is also a dependency ...

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01/26/17

4 out of 5

Good tool for primarily Waterfall projects

What do you like best? One stop place to capture mini projects/tasks, resource allocation, calendars, PTo's, holidays and plan project delivery timelines. What do you dislike? Not useful for Agile models. Somewhat cumbersome to maintain. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Planning, scheduling and resource management for a highly Agile project