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PC Magazine Rated our past version 5 Stars & Version 8 is even better!
If you're managing an IT department, we've got a solution that answers your needs without imposing a huge learning
curve and complexity. Whether you're managing adhoc tasks or planning projects with an
international scope, ManagePro delivers a solution that delivers great visibility and organization while minimizing
needs for daily input.
ManagePro is a project management software that combines comprehensive functionality (resource
allocation, dependencies, time cards and metrics) with ease of use. And that's just the start. As your needs
expand, you'll find a complete set of performance, strategic alignment and portfolio planning business tools...
all provided as part of the ManagePro solution.
If you're wondering... "Does it do Resource Allocation, Gantt charts,
Earned Value, CPI?..."
The answer is yes, it does all of them, very well in fact. But the reason PC
Magazine said it was "project management for the rest of us" goes beyond ease of use and comprehensive features.
It's the fact that ManagePro addresses project management within the larger scope of
managing a an IT department and the IT needs of an entire organization. An environment where some projects are formal and involved,
and others are ad-hoc tasks and on any given day you need to move in and through all of them and have your people do the same.
Whether you're looking at this tool for the IT department or in behalf of the the larger organization, 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 an outline or Timeline
view as depicted below, setting the start and due date if you know them (not required) and assigning who's going to complete it.
PC Magazine described it as - Project Management for the Rest of Us
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Don't take PC Magazine's or our word for it, read a professional project manager
and reviewer's observations and with the free demo make your own decision:
"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..."
David McClure, OR/MS Today
There's a lot more to address about how our project management software can work for you. Things like:
- 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!”
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