PlanningForce 1.4 Express

PlanningForce 1.4 Express provides users with the most advanced features in the field of program management, project planning and resource scheduling. In a first stage, PlanningForce focuses on planning simulations, decision makings and progress monitoring.

PlanningForce agile methodology can help you deciding and keeping control over objectives in a complex and changing environment.

Due to its totally original graphical user interfaces and workflows and its automatic scheduling engine, the planning process has never been so intuitive and interactive.

Major Features:

1. Organize projects in hierarchies and portfolios; dependencies can be set between these projects or sub-projects.
2. Task descriptions can be made in terms of roles, skills, levels or need for specific resources; planning depends on the resources available; no over-allocation is allowed.
3. Templates of project portfolios, projects, sub-projects or task groups can be created and used in a click.
4. Define your tasks in terms of duration or load expressed in man days.
5. Use simple or complex dependencies and express lags in days or in percentage of completeness.
6. Calendars can be defined at a group level or at indivual level; calendars can be cumulative.
7. Coefficients take account of uncertainties that impact task achievement, such as illness or weather conditions, and other restrictions or obstructions like learning curves, holidays, task difficulty, etc.
8. For each task, the Task Details ranks the resources according to their profile match ; you can then choose to impose, include or exclude specific resources to carry it on.
9. Check at a group level the balance between required and offered roles & skills.
10. Impose or exclude resources at a group level.
11. Compare in a dual Gantt chart, the task requirements with the resource availibility; it helps to size your resource pool to your needs or to modify the latter.
12. Actualize the progress of your tasks, so you can relaunch the automatic scheduling and update your plan.
13. In this interactive Gantt chart, you create the structure of your projects and tasks.

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