TIPS ON HOW POWERFUL FEATURES OF MS PROJECT ONLINE WILL BENEFITS YOU

A great PPM software provides an organization with the ability to identify which projects are most critical to their objectives. This software must help automate processes, streamline the planning, managing and delivering of each project. Let us see if Microsoft Project Online will pass these criteria. MS Project Online is a project portfolio management software that allows users to view all their projects and resources. An advantage feature if you are already subscribed either with Office 365 Enterprise, Government, or Academic, you may be able to simply add Project Online to that account. Now let’s explore more of these awesome features! 

Microsoft Project Online task management features include the following: (1) Define a set of actionable, measurable and unique business drivers. (2) Utilize pair wise comparison techniques to engage executives to objectively prioritize the business drivers for the upcoming planning period. (3) Undertake an impact assessment of each project against the prioritized business drivers to derive a strategic value score for each project. (4) Run cost constraint what-if analyses to optimize the project portfolio under varying budgetary constraints.(5) Run capacity planning analysis to maximize resource utilization so the latest versions of Project Online now deliver a PPM system that includes world class top-down portfolio analysis techniques fully integrated with leading execution-orientated schedule management and resource management capabilities. MS Project Online made all the more powerful because it’s all

 built on-top of SharePoint, the world’s most used collaboration platform. 

The following project planning features are available in Microsoft Project Online: (1) Baseline data can roll up or be summarized in a summary row. You can assess how your project is doing versus to your original plan by setting and saving a baseline as a snapshot of your original schedule before your project gets rolling. (2) Budget planning allows you to compare current progress against a baseline that you set at the start of a project. (3) In Project Online you can compare two versions of a project. A report is being formed that shows what was been modified. (4) You can meet deadlines by marking major goals of your project with a milestone. (5) You can filter project plans by any value in the plan (6) With MS Project Online you can apply multiple grouping rows to a project plan and sort project date. (7) Through Team Planner, you can use a view that shows people and their assignments. 

In terms of reporting and business intelligence, with Microsoft Project Online, you can create crisp, colorful, professional reports without having to export your data to another program. You can add pictures, charts, animations, links and more. So everything that you must have to clearly and effectively share project status information to stakeholders and team members. Reporting is actually a significant strength for Project Online because it is built on SharePoint and therefore utilizes all of the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. An added plus point of MS Project Online’s PPM reporting capabilities comes from the fact that the partner ecosystem has built out common reports and dashboards leveraging the Microsoft BI suite.