Project Professional 2019 delivers real-time communications and instant messaging enabled right within your project plan via Skype for Business, and it consolidates all your potential project resources in a single view. Collaborate with others to easily start and deliver winning projects. Includes all the features of Project Standard plus collaboration tools, resource management, SharePoint task sync, submit timesheets and more.
Familiar charts
Built for professional project managers, Project Professional offers familiar tools, like Gantt charts, to help you easily create schedules and reduce training time.
Smart automation
Reduce inefficiencies with automated features. Auto-populate start and end dates based on dependencies, and use the Task Inspector to identify more efficient task and resource arrangements.
Intuitive baselines
You can use baselines to help decision makers track and compare actual progress to the original project plan.
Multiple timelines
Built-in multiple timelines help you visually represent complex schedules and understand all aspects of a project. Easily share timelines using familiar Office tools like PowerPoint (Office, including PowerPoint, is sold separately).
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.
Connected apps _____
Easily copy information from Project and paste it into familiar Office applications like PowerPoint and Word. And OneDrive for Business provides handy storage for project artifacts.
Collaborative workspaces _____
Create a dedicated project site to share information—status updates, conversations, and project timelines—so team members stay informed.
Sync with Project Server 2019 _____
Sync Project Professional 2019 schedules with Project Online Premium and Project Server 2019.
Visualized relationships
Task path highlighting in Gantt charts helps you understand the relationship among tasks and identify which are most critical to the project’s success.
What-if planning
Set tasks to “inactive” and run what-if scenarios to determine the best-fit assignments without re-creating your entire project plan.
Optimized resources
The Resource Engagement feature lets you request specific resources. The Team Planner helps you identify and fix potential resourcing issues that could impact the schedule.
Consolidated view
Consolidate all your potential project resources in a single view so that resource managers can compare resources across standardized data to build best-fit teams.
Project reports
Powerful built-in reports, like Burndown and Resource Overview, can help you gain insights, communicate information to stakeholders, and achieve results.
