121 Microsoft Project Testimonials

“You’d have someone start a project in a tool and they would have to resubmit to create awareness of the effort. This would require extra time and rework. There was a lot of confusion.”

"To help deliver every car on time and on budget, Aston Martin runs its business on Office 365."

"We now have a more integrated dashboard to view our security score and threat landscape. That was ultimately the game changer."

"Project Online played a key role in our refreshed resource management strategy with the advanced capabilities in forecasting time, tracking actuals, and truly superior reporting. Now our decision makers use it for predictive analysis and maximizing our talent capacity."

“With Project Online, we will have a much better cadence with rolling out new programs. It will truly support our change management efforts on what gets introduced and what to expect from a community operations standpoint.”

"A great advantage of Project Online is that senior management can get an updated report on each project and obtain a global view. Before, we invested considerable time and resources in creating reports, but now the process is quick and agile."

“Project for the web provides intuitive functionality that supports modern ways of working and gives us a central project hub that serves as a baseline for all employees.”

“Technology develops quickly, and we have very long implementation timelines. We won’t get the full benefit of new technological developments unless we can efficiently track and plan projects from end to end.”

“Data is one of the vital assets of any car company. We probably create more data now in a year than the company generated in the previous 103 years."

"The IT tools we choose for employees have to deliver a sustainable return on investment. At Aston Martin, we’re using Microsoft cloud technologies, including Office 365, to help navigate the road ahead."

“Managing timing is crucial. We use task dependences in Project Online to ensure that everything stays on track, even if a supplier suddenly can’t make a delivery date. That way we know that our critical compatibility points among different design elements are always aligned, which means we get a more cohesive product and a higher quality car earlier in the development phase. Ultimately, this means a better car for the customer.”

“We consider Project Online absolutely critical to the new way we do business. Within our 10 programs, internal resources—between 20 and 30 percent of total costs—ebb and flow over time. As we look at the whole portfolio, we can tweak resource allocation and timelines across programs. We use the same number of people but more intelligently, so we are more efficient and deliver more revenue.”

“We use Microsoft cloud productivity tools every day to make sure the teams have the right information, exactly when they need it. That maximizes their creative energy, which translates into the visual excitement you see in the car’s design—and that’s what our customers respond to.”

"We’re becoming more agile by using a hybrid version of agile and classical project management methodology. With Project Online, we’re not only changing how we measure progress, but also how people are working."

"Two teams have started using Project Online for timesheets, and it’s been much faster to enter their hours. We also used to have to wait a couple of hours until a project plan was final; now you can create a new plan in a few minutes."