MS Project Tech Tool

Hello Mr. Anderson,

After our end of the month meeting, you have enabled the ability to pursue the MS Project for our design team. After approaching me directly about testing for my input, I have done just that and have found some results that my interest you greatly. As you may already know, MS Project can allow us to engage in project management with many features that can contribute efficiency to any of our processes such as developing plans, managing budgets, and tracking project’s process. Since we as project managers need an efficient program that can eliminate any constraints such as the lack of customization, lack of widespread features, and the lack of compatibility, we should intend to pursue MS Project.

We can sure use MS Project because of the integration with the Microsoft programs. Microsoft SharePoint already is in alliance with MS Project. The similarity with all the Microsoft programs allows the ability to learn MSP quicker. The ribbon is similar to the 2010 programs with the File, Task, Resource, Project etc… The very nice feature of the MS Project is the Zoom slider, inserting columns, and the facility of selecting far more commands. MSP runs on Windows’s PC’s and Macs which can benefit since we use both systems.

We use teams for different projects and lately we have not been able to allow a better managing of assigned resources. With MSP, we can allow to view to manage over allocations and different tasks with their assigned resources. The greatness of just dragging and dropping tasks to different teams makes it easier for me as the manager to create faster communication.

We also face the problem of not being able to manage our projects on-time by a couple of days because the lack of scheduling tasks on your own. With MS Project, we would be able to manually insert tasks that have nothing to do with project calendars or tasks relate directed with the project. Since we work with small projects assignments, this option will help tremendously since the greater descriptions and task add-ons will help the project.

The great option of MSP is the Task Inspector feature where it identifies problems and timing issues. The ability to provide me with solutions with these scheduling task problems also helps me in advance without me having to waste time to search. This feature serves as a system review to make sure all my tasks aren’t overlapping or conflicting with each other. Along with this, a timeline view feature has allowed managers to have an overview of a project schedule. You can manipulate the view by picking tasks, milestone tasks, or just any individual tasks and have it depict it on the timeline view.

Factors to keep in mind would be the price to purchase MSP. We can face charges such as $300-$750. There are possibilities that the previous edition can be used but that would defeat the purpose of using MSP to its full potential and new features. Since we are already having difficulties with simple project software, we should add MS Project to our company with the right analysis on the cost for the software.

Thank you,
Jim Lozada
Sr. Project Manager

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