MS Project - Project Management Decision-Making

MS Project - project Management decision-making

MS Project

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Product Type, and features of MS Project

Microsoft Project (MS Project or MSP) is a Microsoft software dedicated to the management of projects. It enables planners and project managers to organize and control it, manage resources, budget, data analysis,...
Presentation and concept of MS Project
MS Project allows you to plan a project : it is possible at any time to create tasks and milestones, define the links between each task, prioritize them. MS Project also has the ability to estimate the duration as well as the workload required to accomplish a task set. Microsoft Project also allows the creation of models that allows the user to adhere to a methodology or a process of some kind. The project can be graphically represented in different ways : Gantt chart, network tasks... project management is possible by many ways such as the definition of the initial planning, the seizure of the progress of tasks or rescheduling.
It is possible to update the progress of the project in different ways :

- With the seizure of a percentage of progress- With the update of the actual duration and remaining duration- With the update of the quantity of effective work (which was performed), and the balance remaining.

The main features of MS Project
- Preparation of Pert chart
- Preparation of Gantt chart
- Assignment of teams
- Management of peak loads
- Management of public holidays
- Automatic generation of documentation in word format, pdf and HTML
Benefits of MS Project
Resource management
Microsoft Project allows the management of resources : for each project, it is possible to create teams, allocate resources to them.

There are different types of resources :
- Resource work, which perform the workloads (humans or machines)
- The material resources, which are of consumable resources with the possibility to assign them a number or quantity
- The resource cost, which are costs associated with certain positions.
- These resources are then allocated to the different tasks of the project.

The team planner offers the possibility to manage a capacity plan resources and allocate tasks to resources. MSP also allows, via a resource graph, analyze the workloads of the resources. Of features that enable you to resolve the concerns of over-use of resources, and thus reorder the tasks in an optimal manner.
Assigning a cost
For each resource, MSP can assign a cost : unit cost (hardware resources), daily rate (work resource). Seen that it is possible to assign a cost to any resource, Microsoft Project can calculate the cost of the project. MS Project even offers the possibility to provide an initial budget for the project, and compare it to the cost of the project calculated.
Analysis and communication of the project
MS Project offers many opportunities for data analysis, such as, for example, reports. In addition, the information of the project can be exported to Microsoft Project and/or Microsoft Visio to analyze the work, the costs, the time necessary...through tables, graphs, diagrams... Finally, it is also possible to communicate the information of the project such as the Gantt chart or even create a timeline for a document Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
In what cases to use MS Project ?
For it projects or not
For average size projects

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