RationalPlan Single Project 3.11.0

RationalPlan Single Project 3.11.0 offers you a powerful and modern project management software which is designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload.

You can use RationalPlan in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, business, software development or even for a simple student project. It will help you to complete your project as scheduled, on time and within budget.

The application is 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.

RationalPlan is a great alternative to Microsoft Project with some extra-features like multi project management (only for Multi Project version). It offers you the most important capabilities of a good project management software while beeing able to operate on various platforms starting with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and all other Java enabled platforms.

We've build RationalPlan with ergonomy in mind: no fussing dialog windows will prompt unless strictly necessary, timescale zoom is a mouse-wheel roll away without having to reach for the dedicated icons (though the icons are also available) or you can shift to a different time frame by simply dragging the "focus area". A special "zoom focus point marker" was implemented to allow users to zoom without loosing the "interest area" from sight - the marker will fix the time point during the zoom actions.

Apart from the well known Gantt Chart view we also provide a separate Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) view to help you focus on the very important task of breaking down the project rather than distracting your attention to other issues that would only come up at a later stage.

Major Benefits:

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

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 Graph
• 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
• 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)

Enhancements:

1. Integration with spreadsheets from Excel, iWork Numbers and OpenOffice
2. Split tasks and easier manual leveling for resources
3. A more user friendly interface
4. Bug fixes
   

Requirements: Java Runtime Environment 5.0