Microsoft Teams is one of the success stories of the last year, spurred on by the massive growth in home working brought about by the global pandemic. In fact, in October of 2020, Microsoft announced that Teams had reached 115 million daily active users.
Microsoft project management software however includes not only Teams but also Microsoft Project. However, whereas Teams was launched in 2017, MS Project has been in the business for almost four decades. For a long time, the de facto software for Project Management, it is still very widely used for complex projects.
MS Project is scalable and can accommodate all sizes of business from start-ups to enterprises, across numerous industries, whatever their project plan. It can be used for an extremely wide range of project activities, including:
- Development of project plans
- The creation of Gantt charts
- Managing & creating budgets
- Resource assignment
- Progress tracking
- Task scheduling
- Creation of very detailed graphical reports
- Provides a big picture view of organizational capacity
- For Team management
Obviously, Ms Project has seamless integration with Microsoft Teams. Microsoft are also introducing some really smart integrations with Power BI. As well as the desktop version there is also Microsoft Project Online, a cloud-based, web browser version of MS Project. Built on the SharePoint platform, Project Online stores data in the SharePoint data store. Just like it’s the desktop counterpart, it offers resources to help plan, prioritize and manage workflows of all different kinds.
You can learn more about this topic by visiting our blog post What is a SharePoint, a Guide for Beginners. And if you’d like to know how project management is made easier with MS Project, have a browse through our Microsoft Project articles.
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