Reflection on Using MS Project

Running head: REFLECTION ON USING MS PROJECT
Project Management: A&D High Tech
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1REFLECTION ON USING MS PROJECT
Reflecting experience with MS project
In order to implement a project plan and boost up the company sales it is much crucial for
the project manager and project team members to use such small project developing software. I
think Microsoft Project is one of the most useful and suitable tool that can be used for managing
projects and track its current status. Since the launch of Microsoft Project (MS project) it is
helping the project managers to do all project related activities in terms of project tracking,
resource assigning, cost managing etc. While implementing the project plan in MS project I have
identified many benefits of this software. Project plan and schedule are debatably constitutes
many important project management stages.
The backbone of the entire project even can be formed with the help of MS project. I
have experienced that it helps to prioritize all the project activities with elimination of surprises.
All the tasks can be managed and for individual tasks different resources can also be assigned
with this MS project easily. The MS project also have calendar and as per the working cost and
hour the resources can be assigned. It also shows over allocation of cost and overrunning budget
those needs to be eliminated. I have also experienced that, Microsoft project can easily calculate
the variance from the baseline days, actual days and remaining days from the assigned duration.
I have used MS project to design the project plan completely including numbers of days,
resources and cost as well. I have seen that with the help of the MS project the project manager
will be able to keep a balance between the actual cost and planned cost. The change management
plan made certain changes in the project and thus the earned value management of the project
has also changed. The other benefits those can be also generated from the project are improved