Microsoft Project (or MSP) is a project management software program developed and sold by Microsoft which is designed to assist project managers in developing plans, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workloads. The first version, Microsoft Project for Windows v1.0, was started in 1987 on contract to a small external company. In 1988 the company was acquired by Microsoft, bringing the development project in-house where it was finished and released in 1990 as part of the company's applications offerings for Microsoft Windows 3.0. Microsoft Project was the company's third Windows-based application, and within a couple of years of its introduction WinProj was the dominant PC-based project management software. A Macintosh version was released in July 1991. Further Windows and Macintosh versions were released in 1992 (v3), 1993 (v4), 1995, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007.[1] There was no Version 2 on either platform; the original design spec was augmented with the addition of macro capabilities and the extra work required to support a macro language pushed the development schedule out to early 1992 (Version 3). The application creates critical path schedules, although critical chain and event chain methodology third-party add-ons are available. Schedules can be resource leveled, and chains are visualized in a Gantt chart. Additionally, Project can recognize different classes of users. These different classes of users can have differing access levels to projects, views, and other data. Custom objects such as calendars, views, tables, filters and fields are stored in an enterprise global which is shared by all users. Microsoft Project and Project Server are the cornerstones of the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution
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Great management tool.
Powerful management tool with an intuitive interface. Helps you plan and makes you keep up with the time line.
I'm using Project 2007 trial. Wish I could have one.
la solucion para mis CPMPERT (= ans Gantt
نرم افزاری بسیار خوب به منظور مدیریت کنترل پروژه، منابع و هزینه های آن، با قابلیت نمایش نمودارهای گانت و ای او اِن و ... که از پرطرف دارترین نرم افزار مدیریت پروژه در سطح کلان می باشد
It's an ok software - but it show its age, and need to be revamped in something new. I hope Google release a "Google Project" some day!
many open source softwares can substitute it
One of the best things that you can say about Microsoft Project is that it's not quite as bad as most of its competitors.
What is it about Project Management software - the discipline dedicated to succesfully managing other peoples time - that makes it so hard to perform relatively simple tasks?
Would it kill them to make slipping every task in the project by a week into a single button push?