Gantt Chart Software for Business & Project Management
Finally, a Gantt Chart and Project management software that lays out as simple as an outline, yet has all the complex tools available... when and if you need them
- Whether you're planning out single office tasks or projects with an international scope, ManagePro provides a Gannt chart, time line solution that answers your needs without imposing a huge learning curve and complexity.
- It helps you plan, organize and translate your plan to others
- It includes more than 200 date, number and text fields to enable you to define project goals and objectives, scope requirements, stake-holders, over-arching action plans... all the way down to tasks if you need that detailed of a plan
- Planning around time, budgets and people resources is all handled very smoothly and pushes out to others to gather up-to-date feedback
- Along with a flexible project planning feature set, it also adds a complete set of performance, strategic alignment and portfolio planning business tools
- The Gantt chart display can be toggled back and forth to display Progress Updates and Percent Complete Labels as part of each duration bar by selecting the purple arrow and % icons as shown below. Turning them on enables you to show when Progress Notes have been added to goals as well as what percent complete each goal is set to. Check out the screen shot below.
- Planning, investigating and building a project - action plan sequence to reach objectives
- Working the plan in a head's up manner that balances resources and priority every day
- Tracking/documenting/measuring results to link project management to your everyday business process with handy red indicators (see chart) when a project due date has slipped.
- 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!”
ManagePro is a project planning and project execution or implementation solution that functions from either a Gantt chart, outline, scorecard or map view - your choice:
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ManagePro emphasizes visibility and current information, allowing you to move seemlessly from an outline to a Gantt chart timeline, to a map view of your project based upon your planning and visualization needs at the moment. Even scorecards and dashboards are included to track performance metrics on your projects.
If you're wondering, "Does it also do Resource Allocation, Dependencies, Earned Value?..." The answer is Yes!
Here's some specifics. The Gantt view displays the timelines between the Start and Due date of each goal. The Green triangle designates the start date of a goal and the Blue Triangle shows the Due Date. You can click on either end of a timeline and drag and drop to adjust the dates of any goal. Notice that it does remember the original due date and displays a Red Triangle at that point on the timeline. At a glance you can then tell if a project has slipped its Due Date or is finishing ahead of schedule. Buttons at the top allow you to show when Progress Notes have been added to goals as well as what percent complete each goal is set to.
Note: You can add up to four layers on a line item's duration bar. For instance you might wish to display in different colors projected start and due dates and actual start and due dates. It's all available through ManagePro customization features.
ManagePro is outcome, not calendar, based in its approach to helping you plan and manage project successfully. That means you can build the outline or structure of your projects without entering dates, and add them later when it is convenient or known. So our project planning tools help you construct an effective plan to reach any outcome or objective and measure your progress along the way. A plan that can be attached to dates or not. A plan that can be linked with dependencies and resource requirements or not. Flexibility, not rigid programming-based rules, underlies the real connection between ease of use and value in ManagePro.
Whether you're in IT, Marketing, Engineering or over-seeing it all, you will find that the inclusion of performance management, task management, portfolio management, strategic planning and document management tools within ManagePro all make for a use-able solution that will help you more effectively deliver results through others. Working a project is as simple as adding tasks from either the Gantt Chart or Outline view, setting the start and due date if you know them (not required) and assigning who's going to complete it.
At the core of ManagePro's resource allocation and project management software is a 3 step emphasis on visibility, accountability and follow-through:
Don't take PC Magazine's (we got a 5 out of 5 star rating)or our word for it, read a professional project manager and reviewer's observations and with the free demo make your own decision:
-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:
Whether you're someone in management or a certified project manager, sometimes the biggest challenge when evaluating new project planning software is determining if it fits your needs and keeping the learning curve from becoming an entire project itself.
We can help you answer those questions with a quick online demo or our cost effective "Does it Fit" service.