Free project plan software for windows

Project Planner lets you manage your projects and allows your team members to modify their task status online/real time. It also gives you control over the schedule as well as the cost expended on your project. It allows you to view at any point of time the risks which has occured in your projects and the corresponding contingency plan tried out by you. Using the metrics features built-in, Smartworks lets you prdeict the slippage in terms of cost/schedule your project would experience before its completion. Project Planner belongs to the Smartworks family of business productivity application suite.
Project Planner - Personal Edition is a freeware, so you can download and use it with no obligation, no time limit, and no charge.
Project Planner -Pro (Professional ) : If your organization has more than 10 people (but less
than 50 people) who would be collobarating on various issues then we would like to
recommend you this version of Project planner.This has a server which has 50 user license and priced at US $499.
Project Planner-Enterprise: If your organization has many more people than 50 we would recommend you to go for this version of Project management. This has a server which has unlimited user license (site license) and is priced at US$999

Auto Project Planner 2.4 offers you a professional and powerful software which automatically calculates a proper project plan based on your effort estimations and the due dates you have in mind. APP computes time plans, based on due dates, given estimations and other variables. A list of tasks and a list of employees can be defined.

A list of tasks and a list of employees can be defined . Tasks can be assigned to one or more employees. It is also possible to define a maximum percentage value an employee can/should work on a task. Predecessors, public holidays, leaves, weekly working hours and some more parameters can be specified and are considered in the calculation.

According to this input the software compute project plans by minimizing the MSE (mean squared error) between expected and computed end dates.

The idea is to

1. Define a task and the relation(s) to team members only once
   
   • There are simple relations, like: this guy is doing this task in a week
   • And complex relations, like: two people are doing this task, one guy should do max. 70% of the work, the other max 50%. One guy needs some training for this task, the task needs an other task to be completed for 50% and should end at the same time a third task ends, of course the holiday planning and stuff has to be considered!
2. Then just regularly update the remaining estimations (e.g. get this information from the team in a weekly status meeting)
3. Start the APP.NET calculation engine (this can be done during the meeting as well)
   
   • You get errorfree results within a minute (means problemfree project plans)
   • You don't (means estimations vs. due dates... it's not gonna happen) - then you have to do some re-planning

Goals:

• Reduce the manual work of planning
• Have a relevant time plan always available
• Allow predictions about how optional projects and tasks affect the plannings

Major Features:

1. Add/Remove/Edit/Arrange Projects and Tasks
   
   • Estimated/Remaining Time
   • Expected End Date
   • Worked Hours (till now)
   • Calculated Target State [%] vs. Is State [%] (till now)
   • Predecessors
   • End with an other Task
2. Add/Remove/Edit Staff Members
   
   • Hours per week
   • Productivity
   • Training Time
3. Assign (multiple) Staff Members to Tasks
4. Define max. percentage a Staff Member could/should work on a Task
   
   • Whole Task
   • Per Week
5. Define Sick/Personal Leaves & Public Holidays
6. Define Training Time and a Productivity Rate for unexperienced workers
7. Set Start Date of Calculation
8. Calculation:
   
   • Minimizes MSE between Expected and Calculated End Dates of Tasks
   • Calculates the 'best' project plan for you
   • Graphical and textual display of calculated proect plan
9. Examples should improve your understanding of the software
   

Enhancements:

• Replaced the old binary file format.
• Additionally a complete code refactoring has been made.

project2planner - convert project plans created by MS-Project (MPP files) to Smartworks Project planner (PPR) format. Users can now share the MPP files with others who do not have MS-Project freely. Now your customers can view the progress of their project in terms of gantt charts , Network diagrams and other graphical charts even if they do not have MS-Project installed in their system. . However the user cannot modify the project plan or print it.
Users can use the freeware tool Smartworks Project Planner reader which can be downloaded from http://dl.filekicker.com/send/file/139491-0NW8/ppreader10.exe to view the converted project plans. . The current version of the project planner reader runs on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/XP/2000/2003. But future versions would run on more operating systems including Mac-OS, Windows-CE and Linux.
Enhancements:
- convert MS-Project (MPP) files to smartworks project planner reader format

RNA-Project RC1.2.2 is a highly-efficient, high-quality utility which can easily create reports from Microsoft Project plans in Excel.

This ReportsDNA extension allows you to create a report in 5 minutes with point and click ease.
Your users won't need Microsoft Project since the reports are in Excel.

With a few clicks create a report that shows any combination of the following:

• Bold Summary Tasks like project
• Indent tasks like project
• Group and outline tasks like project
• Only show tasks assigned to a specific resource
• Only show late tasks
• Highlight late tasks
• Filter tasks using any filter available in your plan
• Display columns based on any table defined in your plan

Take advantage of ReportsDNA's built-in features:

• Automatically print, email, and post your report to Sharepoint
• Take advantage of Excel's powerful functions like conditional formatting and filtering

Onepoint Project Basic Edition 8.1 (Update 2) is a professional and smart kind of project & portfolio management software integrating project management, project controlling and resource management into a single, easy-to-use tool.

The software comes in multiple editions scaling from an easy-to-install single-user desktop version up to an enterprise-level, Web-based multi-user solution. Beside classical planning and controlling tools such as schedules/GANTT-charts and plan/actual-comparison tables, the software also features less common tools such as a built-in WBS, milestone trend analysis, and a project pipeline chart.

Enhancements: Version 8.1 enhances project planning functionality.

A Java based project leadership software integrating flexible reporting, progress tracking, project planning Onepoint Project is the first open source project leadership software integrating flexible reporting, progress tracking, project planning, project controlling and monitoringinto a single, easy-to-use, Web- or Desktop-based solution.
Main features:
- Work Breakdown Structure
Do not get caught in the "time trap". Focusing too early on the schedule is known to distract you from your key project goals. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) helps you to focus in the early stages of project planning.
- Cost Baseline
Project managers often "drown" in cost controlling Excel sheets. Onepoint Project hands a helping hand by seamlessly integrating an efficiently editable cost baseline with other planning tools such as a work breakdown structure and a GANTT-schedule.
- Milestone Trend Analysis
Plans do change and milestones get delayed. The problem most of time is that you cannot tell early enough which milestones will hold and which ones will not. Onepoints integrated milestone trend analysis chart helps you with that.
- Project Pipeline
The project pipeline provides a great new way to view all relevant information across your ongoing projects in a single, accessible chart. By organizing projects into a pipeline of project statuses the dynamics of your project organization become transparent.
- Documents and Links
Compared to other project management applications, Onepoint goes one step further. It not only allows you to add documents to projects, but also to individual phases and work packages. You can even attach documents to project templates.
- GANTT/Schedule
If you are planning dates and dependencies then the project schedule is the right tool for you. Onepoints GANTT chart feature adds color in order to let you categorize your phases and work packages and improve the clear view of your schedule.
- Plan/Actual Comparisons
Onepoint Project is more than just a project-planning tool. An integrated cost baseline, actual time and cost tracking as well as easily accessible plan/actual comparisons make it the ideal tool for constantly monitoring the key parameters of your projects.
- Resource Utilization
Especially in todays dynamic project environments, resources are often shared across projects making resource utilization monitoring quite complex. Onepoint Project takes on this problem by providing an easy-to-access utilization view across all projects.
- Tasks and Comments
Most classical project and task management applications force you to choose between a planned and a dynamic approach to project planning. Onepoint goes one step further and combines these two aspects of planning by adding ad hoc tasks and comments.
- Project Templates
Onepoints project templates allow you to mix mandatory and optional elements. Therefore, they can be used both to jump-start projects and to comply with internal or industry-specific standards.