Analytical essay example
Microsoft (MS) Project
- Subject
- Information Technology
- Type
- Analytical essay
- Citation style
- APA 6
- Length
- 3 pages
About this sample
The paper answers three prompts: it gives an opinion on whether Microsoft Project is applicable to coursework, identifies challenges of using it in a course, and explains the importance of a project management tool like it. It argues that the software is easy to learn but is designed for management rather than teaching, and that its integration with Word and Excel is limited. Its sections cover usability, challenges, progress reporting, and baselining.
- Usability of Microsoft Project
- Suitability for academic versus management use
- Integration with MS Word and MS Excel
- Progress reporting and Gantt charts
- Baselining of project schedules
How it opens
Question 1. Opinion on the applicability of MS Project
I had an interaction with MS project and from a user perspective, MS project is easy to use. I would also care to mention that I have some programming background. The user interface (UI) of the software is easy to master as it incorporates an inbuilt guiding program that is user-friendly and has the right basics to enable new users with no programming knowledge to be able to interface with the program's set up. I also enquired from my classmates who no prior knowledge of computers who confirmed that with minimal tutorage by a person with programming background almost made them pros in its usage.
Question 2. Challenges of using MS project on this course
1. MS project is a wrong tool for tutorage purposes. The first problem that I foresee to be presented by MS Project is its making and design. It is designed for and widely used for management purposes. The managers use the software to develop plans, to assign resources to organization's tasks, to track progress, and to manage budgets as well analyzing the workloads in their departments. Using MS project in this course will be using the wrong tool for the wrong purpose. It lacks the components with which to support class learning. MS program is a bit complicated of a program to use. Students will have to be trained to be able to use the software, and this is an additional cost to the schools management in terms of time and resources when other easier to use programs for the purpose of teaching are available.
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