RationalPlan Single Project 3.10.0 offers an effective tool which helps you to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload.Whether your application is in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, software development or a simple student project, RationalPlan can help you to complete your project on time and within budget.

The application is designed as an affordable alternative to Microsoft Project and it is covering project management area from WBS construction, project planning and scheduling to critical path management, overallocated resources detection, progress tracking, cost estimation, etc. Gantt chart support as well as various time line reports are also provided.

Major reasons for using RationalPlan are:

1. Provides a clean way to break down your project, build schedules, allocate resources, and manage budgets
2. A step by step project guide walks you through the project management process so you can lay down a project plan immediately
3. Get resources and finances under control (realistic cost estimates mechanisms, screening cash-flow time distribution for tasks and resources) 
4. "what if" scenarios capability via multiple undo/redo levels allow to make changes and safely get back
5. Track project evolution in terms of completion, time and costs 
6. Brings projects critical issues to your attention (overallocated resources, critical paths with configurable slack from which activities become critical) .

Major Features:

1. Project Planning
   • Associate general project information (name, notes, links, assumptions, constraints, risks)
   • Create, edit and delete calendars
   • Build work breakdown structure
   • Create dependencies between tasks, set lead/lag time
   • Manage task properties such as constraints, fixed cost
2. Resource Management
   • Define project resources - human/equipment and material
   • Define specific working time for each human resource
   • Assign resources to tasks
   • View timephased information about resources' work and cost
   • View overallocated resources and resources that work overtime
3. Project Tracking
   • View project's critical tasks depending on a customizable slack
   • Mark the task progress by changing the task completion value (%complete or %work complete)
   • View timephased information about tasks' work and cost
4. Miscellaneous
   • Easy to use Gantt Chart
   • Project Guide assists you step-by-step with easy to understand explanations
   • Icon Bar with specific commands for every view
   • Export to Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel
   • Import from Microsoft Project
   • Printable reports (to printer or to file - pdf format)
   • Strong Print Preview interface
   • No annoying dialog windows unless strictly necessary
   • Cross-platform (work on all major operating systems starting with Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and all other Java enabled platforms)

Requirements: Windows