Product | Plan 1 | Plan 3 | Plan 5 |
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Project for the web | x | x x | x x |
Project Online | x x | x x x | |
Project Online desktop client | x | x |
Feature | Description | Office 365 licenses | Plan 1 | Plan 3 | Plan 5 |
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Project, task, and time management | |||||
Board view | Track project tasks visually for improved workflow and status monitoring by using out-of-the-box and custom task boards. | View only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Dependencies | Set and visually track dependencies between tasks. | View only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Grid view | Plan and manage projects by using a hierarchical grid view of tasks. | View only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Milestones | Establish and track important project and task milestones. | View only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Project Home | Track and manage deliverables using start and end dates and automated scheduling. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Task scheduling | Get a birds-eye view of projects that you've worked on recently, as well as important projects that you need to monitor closely. | View only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Timeline view (Gantt chart) | Visually track and understand project dates, dependencies, and assignments in a hierarchical timeline view. | View only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Summary tasks | Plan, manage, and track deliverables and phases by using summary tasks. | View only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Collaboration | |||||
Microsoft Teams integration | Collaborate on projects in Microsoft Teams.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Resource and program management | |||||
Project team setup | Manage a project team by adding and removing members and setting the working calendar. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Roadmaps | Build visual, interactive roadmaps across projects from Microsoft Project Online, Microsoft Project for the web, and Azure Boards projects.2 With Project Plan 1 you get read-only access to roadmaps. With Project Plan 3 or Project Plan 5 you can also create roadmaps. | View only | View only | Yes | Yes |
Reporting3 | |||||
Out-of-the-box reporting | Use pre-built reports to understand project, program, portfolio, and resource data. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Custom reports | Understand the data important to your organization by building custom reports based on out-of-the-box reports or from scratch. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Dashboards and portals | Build custom dashboards and portals to help meet specific organizational needs. | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Usability | |||||
Coauthoring | Work together with stakeholders and team members to simultaneously build, edit, and update task lists, project schedules, and more. | View only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Graphical indicators | Understand task status, assignments, and more with graphical indicators. | View only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Mobility | |||||
Mobile applications | Build custom mobile applications with PowerApps.4 | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Customization and integration | |||||
PowerApps | Build and consume solutions for web and mobile with PowerApps.4 | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Workflows | Automate and integrate business processes with Power Automate.5 | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Microsoft integration | Collaborate, manage documents, and more by using familiar Microsoft tools and applications.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Security and user management | |||||
Office Modern Groups | Build a project team to collaborate with and easily set up a collection of resources for team members to share. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Feature | Description | Project Plan 3 | Project Plan 5 |
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Project, task, and time management | |||
Alerts and reminders | Stay on schedule for important upcoming tasks and project events with reminders in Outlook and Microsoft Teams.1 | Yes | Yes |
Baselines | Set project baselines to monitor current performance against past performance using the Project Web App. | Yes | Yes |
Board view | Visually track project tasks for improved workflow and status monitoring. | Yes | Yes |
Critical path | Visually track the tasks that represent the longest path through the project using the Project Web App. | Yes | Yes |
Deliverable management | Track and manage deliverables using start and end dates and automated scheduling. | Yes | Yes |
Dependencies | Set and visually track dependencies between tasks. | Yes | Yes |
Gantt view | Visually track and understand project dates, dependencies, and assignments on a hierarchical Gantt chart using the Project Web App. | Yes | Yes |
Grid view | Plan and manage projects using a hierarchical grid view of tasks using the Project Web App. | Yes | Yes |
Issue and risk management | Identify and track issues and risks at the project and task level. | Yes | Yes |
Master projects | Group smaller related projects under a single master project using the Project Web App. | Yes | Yes |
Notifications | Stay on top of task assignments, status, and important project events with Outlook and Teams notifications.1 | Yes | Yes |
Project Home | Get a birds-eye view of projects that you've worked on recently, as well as important projects that you need to monitor closely. | Yes | Yes |
Project versioning | Compare different versions of a project with a report that shows what changed between versions. | Yes | Yes |
Summary tasks | Plan, manage, and track deliverables and phases using summary tasks in the Project Web App. | Yes | Yes |
Task scheduling | Use task start and end dates, effort, work, lead and lag times, and dependencies to get an accurate schedule of project dates using the Project Web App. | Yes | Yes |
Task updates | Capture time and status with comments on project tasks, non-project work, and non-working time. | Yes | Yes |
Timelines | Visually track and understand project dates, dependencies, and assignments on a timeline view using the Project Web App. | Yes | Yes |
Timesheets | Team members can enter time and status against tasks, non-project work, and non-working time. | Yes | Yes |
Timesheet approvals | Team members can submit timesheets for approval. Resource managers and supervisors can review, approve, and decline submitted timesheets. | Yes | Yes |
Non-working time setup | Add vacation, holidays, medical leave, and other nonworking time into your project schedule. | No | Yes |
Collaboration | |||
Attachments | Attach documents, images, and other files at the team, project, or task level. Manage these attachments in a central library at the team or project level. | Yes | Yes |
External team members | Collaborate with people from outside of your organization by granting them access to view and interact with your projects, tasks, and documents.6 | Yes | Yes |
Project sites | Create and customize a hub for collaboration and documents for a project. | Yes | Yes |
Microsoft Teams integration | Collaborate on projects in Microsoft Teams.1 | Yes | Yes |
Demand management | |||
Project request approval workflow setup | Build the workflows you need to evaluate, prioritize, and approve incoming demand. | No | Yes |
Project request forms creation | Capture important data about incoming demand to help you evaluate and prioritize new work. | No | Yes |
Project requests | Track, manage, evaluate, and prioritize incoming demand from within your organization and from external customers and partners. | Yes | Yes |
Resource, program, and portfolio management | |||
Project costing and budgeting | Compare planned progress and budget against actual time and costs using the Project Web App. | Yes | Yes |
Project team setup | Manage a project team by adding and removing members, setting allocation levels, and adding external members. | Yes | Yes |
Resource capacity views | Track and manage resource capacity at the project, team, and organization level. | Yes | Yes |
Resource costing | Track and manage the resource costs of your project. | Yes | Yes |
Resource engagements (bookings) | Project managers can submit requests for resources by role, skills, or name. Resource managers can review requests and assign the best resources available. | Yes7 | Yes8 |
Resource capacity planning | Track and manage resource capacity at the project, team, and organization level. | No | Yes |
Roadmaps | Build visual, interactive roadmaps across projects from Microsoft Project Online, Microsoft Project for the web, and Azure Boards projects.2 | Yes | Yes |
Portfolio analysis and prioritization | Identify, select, and deliver project portfolios that best align with your organization's business strategy and maximize your return on investment (ROI). | No | Yes |
Dashboards/portals | Understand status, prioritization, and more at the portfolio, program, project, task, team, and resource level with real-time interactive dashboards. | Yes | Yes |
Work, generic, and material resources | Add resources to a project, such as work resources like people, generic resources like carpenters, and materials resources like computers and cement. | Yes | Yes |
Reporting3 | |||
Out-of-box reporting | Use pre-built reports to understand project, program, portfolio, and resource data. | Yes | Yes |
Custom reports | Understand the data important to your organization by building custom reports based on out-of-box reports or from scratch. | Yes | Yes |
Dashboards and portals | Build custom dashboards and portals to help meet specific organizational needs. | Yes | Yes |
Customization and integration | |||
Custom branding | Customize your Project deployment using your own brand, logo, and colors. | No | Yes |
Custom fields | Add custom fields at the project, task, and resource level to track data important to your organization and projects. | Yes | Yes |
Formulas | Calculate and capture important data using formulas across tasks and projects. | Yes | Yes |
PowerApps | Build and consume solutions for web and mobile (through OData) with PowerApps.4 | Yes | Yes |
Workflows | Automate and integrate business processes (through OData) with Power Automate.5 | Yes | Yes |
Microsoft 365 integration | Collaborate, manage documents, and more using familiar Microsoft tools and applications.1 | Yes | Yes |
Microsoft Planner integration | Connect Project tasks to a Planner plan and track detailed work in Planner.1 | Yes | Yes |
Security, user, and service management | |||
Active Directory integration | Build teams from any member of your organization's Active Directory.9 | Yes | Yes |
User management | Manage user and group roles and permissions at the project, team, and organization level. | No | Yes |
Service administration | Plan, install and configure, maintain, and extend your Microsoft Project environment as part of your Office 3651 environment. | No | Yes |
Feature | Description |
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Project and task management | |
Baselines | Set project baselines to monitor current performance against past performance. |
Calendar view | Track important project and task deadlines and milestones on a weekly or monthly calendar view. |
Critical path | Visually track the tasks that represent the longest path through the project. |
Deadlines | Establish and track important project and task deadlines. |
Dependencies | Set and visually track dependencies between tasks. |
Gantt view | Visually track and understand project dates, dependencies, and assignments in a hierarchical Gantt view. |
Grid view | Plan and manage projects using a hierarchical grid view of tasks. |
Master projects | Group smaller related projects under a single master project. |
Milestones | Establish and track important project and task milestones. |
Network diagram | View tasks, dependencies, and the critical path of your project in a network diagram view. |
Task scheduling | Use task start and end dates, effort, work, lead and lag times, and dependencies to get an accurate schedule of project dates |
Team planner | Track the allocation and capacity of all project team members, including non-project work and non-working time. |
Timelines | Visually track and understand project dates, dependencies, and assignments in a timeline view. |
Inactive tasks | Use inactive tasks to track work without affecting resource availability or allocation and without affecting the project schedule. |
Summary tasks | Plan, manage, and track deliverables and phases using summary tasks. |
Task inspector | View factors that affect the scheduling of a task, such as a changed start date or error messages. |
Task path analysis | See how one task connects to other tasks by highlighting its task path throughout the project. |
Resource and financial management | |
Resource leveling | Resolve resource conflicts or overallocations by automatically leveling the assignments. |
Work, generic, and material resources | Add resources to a project, such as work resources like people, generic resources like carpenters, and materials resources like computers and cement. |
Project costing and budgeting | Compare planned progress and budget to actual time and costs. |
Resource costing | Track and manage the resource costs of your project. |
Reporting | |
Custom reports | Build custom reports for projects, programs, portfolios, and resources. |
Out-of-box reporting | Use pre-built reports to understand project, program, portfolio, and resource data. |
PDF and XPS output | Save a Project file as a PDF or XPS file. |
Usability | |
Auto-complete | Get suggestions for task or resource names and dependencies as you type. |
Filtered views | Filter project plans by any value in the plan |
Graphical indicators | Understand task status, assignments, and more with graphical indicators. |
Multi-level undo | Undo multiple changes at the same time by using the Undo menu. |
Sorting and grouping | Use custom sorting and grouping to get a focused view of your project, tasks, and resources. |
Customization and integration | |
Custom fields | Add custom fields at the project, task, and resource level to track data important to your organization and projects. |
Forms | Create and deploy custom forms to capture important project data. |
Formulas | Calculate and capture important data using formulas across tasks and projects. |
Templates | Create templates for common projects including project plans, teams, and assignments. |
.mpp import/export | Create new projects from existing .mpp files or create an .mpp file of an existing project. |
Excel import/export | Create new projects from Excel files or create an Excel file of an existing project. |
Entity/field | Limit |
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Task | |
Max. hierarchy level for task | 10 levels |
Max. links (successor + predecessor) for a task | 20 |
Max. duration of leaf task | 1250 days |
Max. duration of summary task | 3650 days (10 years) |
Max. resources that can be assigned to a task | 20 resources |
Supported date range for task | 1/1/1984 – 12/31/2149 |
Project | |
Max. total tasks for the project | 500 |
Max. total duration of the project | 3650 days (10 years) |
Max. total resources for the project | 150 |
Max. total links (successor only) for the project | 600 |