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What is Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

Microsoft Project is a project management software that helps users plan, execute, and monitor projects effectively. It includes powerful features for managing tasks, allocating resources and budgeting, all presented in an easy-to-use interface. With seamless integration into Microsoft 365, it supports real-time collaboration and data sharing. The advanced reporting and analytics tools allow users to track progress and make data-driven decisions. Stay organized, focused, and in charge. With Microsoft Project, easily plan your projects with the power of dynamic scheduling based on effort needed, project duration, and allotted team members. Suitable for projects of any size, Microsoft Project offers flexible deployment options, both cloud-based and on-premises, catering to a wide range of organizational needs.

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Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) helps you get started quickly and execute projects with ease. Built-in templates, familiar scheduling tools, and access across devices increase productivity for project managers and teams.


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Microsoft
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1975
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Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately

8,000 passionate employees worldwide.


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Eric B.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Good overall but very picky and not so userfriendly."
I love the automatically generated gantt charts and the timeline feature.
Chirag A.
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5.0 out of 5
"My Experience regarding project management"
This tool is best to maintain reports and helps to maintain graphical representation of reports. Multiple filters and styles helps a-lot to represe...
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4.0 out of 5
"An easy way to track tasks"
major projects can easily be managed and viewed using the MS project and portfolio management. It ensures everyone is aware of the timelines and pr...
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What do you like best about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

You can tailor Microsoft Project to your needs. Unlike other 'free' software the relationships between concurrent tasks can be easily separated so that they don't cause issues with date clashes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

It's a costly piece of software to license and these days operates on a subsription basis, so not easy to buy outright. I'd like to see the 'good old days' when you bought a CD and owned the sotware for life! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used MS Project to manage ongoing workstreams. It linked in to Excel, Word and other Office products to produce valuable progress reports and allowed efficient manipulation of data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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One eco system with Microsoft products stack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

Users need to buy a license to have access and have visibility to progress and give feedback. which turns to be costly and in practical if you want to do this for every client Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Users need to buy a license to have access and have visibility to progress and give feedback. which turns to be costly and in practical if you want to do this for every client.

The only problem its solving is that its part of one Microsoft eco system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management allows you to track your project and find the best path to success. It allows us to visualize the path forward and see what needs to be done now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management is not part of MS Office and has to be purchased separately. Sometimes this extra purchase is hard to justify when there are similar tools that are free online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us solve the problems of tracking and resource management for key tasks to get the project completed. It also helps us highlight the task that need to be in the spotlight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

This software lets you track projects in different methodologies like Scrum, Kanban or any other custom methodology. Also, the interface is very much like MS Excel, so it is quite easy to get familiar with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

MS Project does not provide an option to add quick notes for a particular team member. Adding this feature could result in effective communication with no loss of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Microsoft Project helps track essential parameters such as time and resources. It supports different methodologies. It also allows us to create excellent-looking reports for presentations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

Project Portfolio management helps to easily make different portfolios against the strategy of the business and consider the cost against the resource constraint attractive dashboard to view reports and Easy customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

In resource management, the aggregate cost is not able to assign properly, slightly complex in user experience, and need some customization in the interface. Software is cost-effective to compare other project management tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Calculating overheads in a project and split into micro task finally calculate the overall cost achieved in planned hours and cost.

Sometime it may impact the EV, but it show some variation in actual Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I mostly liked the tracking ability for some specific projets in my role as an assistant design engineer. It's functionality is quite simple and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

The learning process of this tool is very big and it is also somewhat expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is used for design project of dimapur kohima bridge designed project and solving the key structure completetion time . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

Very flexible and integrated into the Microsoft suite, which makes it easy to use, build cost competitively, and analyze deviations. As we are mostly working of various Microsoft tools (Microsoft 365, Dynamics, etc) we get great collaboration and productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

The suite needs to mature further specific to EPCI industry and also needs to build risk matrix like Primavera and other costing tools for better representation of the Budgets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps in the integration and tracking of the project performance by also allowing us to feed in key metrics of success including the budget requirements to track the project progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

The huge break down follow up on each task to keep any schedule activities under control, also it haves a lot of third party applications to be integrated with, much helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

There is some software issues and errors, despite is a very complete software no warnings are shown during this errors, making difficult to identify the mistakes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making projects follow up more easy and understandable for any one, dashboards and charts easy to understand the complete project status, in timing, resources and all the important information you need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rajeev R.
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What do you like best about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

Support multiple Methodoglies(Scrum, kanban) , customized reporting, centralized view and better time tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

Limited integration support , usability aspect are not that great, a beginner will struggle to get things right. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Project planning and estimating the progress. We were able to manage resources and time sheet tracking. Reports are clear and easily Readable for management purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

It Can handle complex data yet the interface is simple enough to be used and understood by beginners having familiarity with MS Office suite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management?

It is still lacking market penetration in India. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping me to maintain strict timelines, schedules, and costs to review milestones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.