A Resource Allocation solution for anyone who Manages Projects and People!
If you're in a position where it has to get done, and done right by a certain date, managing resources is a critical part of that process and this software is targeted for you.
Whether you're in IT, Marketing, Engineering or over-seeing it all, you will find that PST's project management software, ManagePro, brings a very helpful two pronged approach to resource allocation.
- From a project level, you want to be able to view all current projects and know if they are resourced appropriately. How many hours will be required, what level of priority, what kind of depencies, how many hours have been applied to date and what % is it completed. ManagePro provides all it in one screen. Imagine having all that at your finger tips today.
- From a personnel level, you want to know who's working on what, what's their level of commitment, who's available now and at any designated time in the future for starters. You guessed it, ManagePro provides that in a single screen as well.
- Follow-up and follow-through are both improved using the visibility and drill-down capability.
- Color coded scorecards track the execution of all objectives, results tracking, the presence of plans and checklists and their status.
- Everything is available within a couple of clicks, including the requirements and issues relevant to each project,
- Improved decision making, clearer results and more accurate feedback from top to bottom in “One Place where it all comes together!”
PST's ManagePro flexibly handles a wide array of projects, with an emphasis that balances ease of use with power when you need it.
Need to put in tasks and projects without dates, because you aren't certain when they will start? - No problem.
Need to use advanced tools such as Resource allocation calculations, Gantt Charts, Dependency Links, Color coded Work Breakdown structure, Scorecards and Integration with MS Excel, Outlook and MS Project? - No problem.
ManagePro is a Resource Allocation Project Management Software that addresses resource allocation at both the project and the personnel level, plus includes scorecards, calculated fields, alerts and analytics to help you stay on top of the process.
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One more important fact. When managing people resources, your organization may have such a stream of ad-hoc tasks that 50% allocation is essentially all you can afford to assign. ManagePro has you covered on that one as well, allowing you to set the threshold for color assignment in the people side of the resource allocation view. Regardless of where you set the threshold, ManagePro summarizes all the project the individual is assigned to, totals the % allocated and graphs in in a timeline view so that you can see the exact dates when relative allocation changes. See below:
PC Magazine described it as -Project Management for the Rest of Us
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But don't take our word for it, let us share a professional project manager and reviewer's observations:
-David McClure, OR/MS Today"First as a project manager, and most recently as a project management consultant, I have often recognized the limitations of traditional project management software in some project environments. Project management software packages are designed to plan and schedule a series of activities required to be accomplished in some relatively fixed order in relation to each other. They focus on determining the critical path and the shortest path through the project, which allows all of the activities to be completed. They are generally powerful, often necessary allies when confronted with a large project involving perhaps several hundreds or even thousands of activities which draw on a large number of often interrelated and limited pools of resources to accomplish the tasks. The class of software termed "project management software" is, in reality, project scheduling software which uses often complicated mathematical algorithms to redistribute resources and rearrange activities in order to make the most effective and efficient use of a limited set of resources to complete a project within a specified time and budget.
However, there are huge numbers of projects which fall into a different category. This category includes small, low budget or short-duration projects which are neither mission critical nor high risk. The majority of these projects do not have the budget, management resources or time to enter data into or use a full blown project management system. These projects may not involve interdependent activities or interrelated resources. They do, however, need management attention to stay on schedule and within budget while delivering the required scope and quality.
In fact, the majority of project environments are made up of relatively small projects involving fewer than 20 individual (usually human) resources. They typically have a duration of less than six months (one year at the most) and a total budget of $20,000 to $1 million each. They are not high risk, mission critical or in a key result area of the organization's strategic plan. These small projects are often discontinuous and involve several points in time where all work must cease while something is reviewed, money is raised or approved for release to the budget, or another entity develops some piece of the project required before the remainder of the work can continue. The environment which I will call "small project" is also normally one where many small projects are being done at the same time. Often, some of the projects are on hold, but they still require monitoring and management at some level.
This is an environment where ManagePro excels.. "
There's a lot more to address about how our project management software can work for you. Things like: