Microsoft Project - Industry Standard Sofware?

[Kwak]

Hello,

Did a quick research here in the forums on "Microsoft Project" and many professionals are experienced with the software.

Is Microsoft Project the industry standard software for PMP?

[pmkb]

PMP is a PMI certification for project management.

PMPs work in many different industries. Some industries are using predominantly MSP, but others do not.

[mattbowen]

Hi Kwak,
You can bet that MS proj. is known by many professionals... MS spent about a billion dollars -maybe not a billion- marketing, promoting, and putting it into the hands of millions.

We do have choices of what tools we use for management and tracking of our projects...

Do you use it?

Do you use other management tools?

[Kwak]

Hello mattbowen,
I was fortunate to get a free student license (education version of Microsoft Project) sponsored by the uni that I am currently attending. I'm not using the program yet but I plan to start using it.

Although there are alternatives, I think I'll stick with the industry standard or the most widely used Project management software.
Thanks for all your help.

[Kwak]

I checked the manufactured retail price of the Microsoft Project license and I can see why professionals look for alternatives.

[cdevera]

Hello Kwak

The project management tools to be used in any project are sometimes specified in the contract or simply determined by different industries in which they have experienced using for a long time. Different industries need different solution, thus requires different project management tools. Sometimes a single tool can handle the job and sometimes a combination of any tools.

Being popular doesn't necessarily gives the right to be a standard. It is up to the industry to have thier own sets of standards and not the software developers.

Cheers

Christian

[mattbowen]

Kwak,
If cost were the only factor in choosing a PM tool, then the cheapest piece of software would be the most used.

Fortunately or not fortunately, various professional projects require professional software, industrial strength if you will. Any given project may encompass hundreds of integral key aspects that must be executed with precision and awareness to attain success.

Best of success in your education Kwak.

Matt

[jblack]

See graph:
http://www.projektura.org/projectmanagement.htm

Hope this helps!
J Black
www.pmconnection.com

[Manni]

Hi Kwak,

in my case it depends on the customer Projekt.

Is it a international project, a lot of tasks (more than 2000), long period (more than 1 year), several locations - than usually Primavera is used - otherwise MS-Project.

By,
Manni

[smoses]

Hi, Currently we use MS Project for project tracking. It is to complex for just tracking a project and there is people entering data into the master plan who don't really know all the in's and outs and change stuff and don't realize what happens in the background when they change things, therefore messing up my master plan.

All I need is something to track actual hours, actual costs, estimates, resources. With reporting capability and something similar to a gantt chart.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what would be a good software for this kind of thing? Eventually they will also want to use this software for project planing but as they are just getting started at this point and do not need that capability.

Thanks

Stacey