What is Microsoft Project 2021 Standard?

Microsoft Project 2021 Standard is the one-stop solution for managing your projects. Use tools for easy task scheduling, reports to keep estimates on track, and understand task relationships in a more comprehensive way than ever before.

Seeing the whole picture is a priority for project managers, and Microsoft wants to make that vision an everyday reality. With Project 2021 Standard from the Office 2021 suite, organizing your work takes center stage with Gantt charts, reporting, dependencies, and other features designed in-app.

Why buy Microsoft Project 2021 Standard?

You won’t have to rely on third-party apps or software at all when you manage your projects – everything is easily accessible in Project 2021 Standard because it’s built into the platform. No matter how busy the day gets, keep up with deadlines and team updates! Streamline your schedule without worrying about any cumbersome integrations.

Keep track of your progress with features like Gantt charts, reports, tasks, dependencies, and work paths. Securely organize all aspects of a project or budget across teams on an innovative platform that's simple enough for anyone to use.

With Project 2021 Standard, you'll be able to spend less time on the tedious and manual tasks associated with managing a project, often all alone. The app's efficient features make it easy to learn and get started, even for beginners.

Robust resource analytics

Compare resources to standard data and forecast projected utilization. Built-in reports let you monitor progress, and address and resolve concerns.

Visual heat maps

• See how resources are utilized with a capacity heat map. Quickly identify overutilized and underutilized resources to optimize assignments.
  
  

Reporting in Real-time

• Track project success visually and dynamically using out-of-the-box reports from the PPM Content Pack for Power BI for quick insights and drill-downs.
  
  

Out-of-the-box Reports

• Share reports to keep everyone in your organization on the same page. Reports include everything from burndown charts to financial statements.
  

Microsoft Project 2021 Standard Features

Project 2021 helps you keep your projects organized and on track with tools that make it easy to get started, quickly plan, and complete projects on time and on budget. Built-in templates and familiar scheduling tools help project managers and teams stay productive.

Effective Project planning

Familiar scheduling features like Gantt charts and prepopulated pulldown menus help reduce training time and simplify the project planning process.

 

Use multiple timelines

Quickly view all project activities, from tasks to upcoming milestones. Customize timelines to represent specific data and easily share them with project stakeholders.

Evaluate project proposals

Microsoft Project helps your organization capture and evaluate project ideas from anywhere within the organization, through a standardized process that feeds detailed business cases and project charters to management for review.

Optimize tasks

Visualization tools help you understand how tasks relate to one another. And by running what-if scenarios, you can make the most of your task assignments. Task path highlighting in Gantt charts helps you understand relationships among tasks and identify which are the most critical to the project’s success.

Get started fast

Built-in, customizable templates use industry best practices to help you get started on the right path—so there’s no need to create project plans from scratch.

Resource Management

• Microsoft Project enables organizations to proactively manage resource utilization, identify bottlenecks early, accurately forecast resource needs, and improve project selection and timely delivery.

Systematic resource request

• Use Resource Engagements to request and lock in resources, so your projects are always properly staffed.

Portfolio management

Optimize your project portfolio to prioritize initiatives and get the results you want. Seamless integration with Power BI provides advanced analytics, and built-in reports keep everyone on the same page.

Portfolio optimization

• Microsoft Project helps decision makers easily model different portfolio scenarios to determine the best strategic path by weighing project proposals against strategic business drivers and considering the cost and resource constraints within an organization.

Seamless BI integration

• Use Resource Engagements to request and lock in resources, so your projects are always properly staffed.

Collaboration

Integrated collaboration solution

 

Skype for Business

Integrated communication tools like Skype for Business (sold separately) make it easy to collaborate using voice, video, or chat within Project, eliminating the need to switch between apps.

Office applications

Easily copy project information from Project and paste it into Office applications like PowerPoint and Word.

OneDrive

You can also store project artifacts in OneDrive.