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Project planning in the 21st century
Accurate and timely project planning and monitoring is at the core of controlling timescales and costs and managing resources.
More and more organisations are finding good computerised project management to be essential.
Project planning in many medium to small sized companies falls to managers rather than experienced planners and is often spread across the organisation to persons heading specific projects. They, just as much as full-time planners, need a software tool that is straightforward, intuitive, strongly graphical and capable of highly professional output.
Choosing a software tool for project planning
Planning products from the large household names (for example Microsoft Project ) have proved to be inadequate, difficult to use without training, expensive to purchase in multiple units and inflexible in terms of reporting.
Many organisations have resorted to using Excel as a planning tool, but though it can create simple plans, it is not suited to integrated management or to the generation of plans that need regular updating.
Project Commander is a modern project management package (with none of the above disadvantages) which is excellent for:
- Tendering/Proposals
It allows you to create high quality project plans that reflect a corporate image to customers. Combination reports allow cost and resource graphs to be incorporated in concise presentations.
- Planning
Plans can include potential risk time allowances to reflect uncertainty.
- Progress reporting to clients
Progress to date reports, using task % complete and baseline, show clients how the actuals compare to the target in terms of the timeline, costs and resources.
- Rescheduling and what-ifs
For projects that are behind target, tasks can be automatically rescheduled by Project Commander with a single click; alternatively outstanding tasks can be replanned from the current date. Multiple levels of undo allow plans to be easily reworked.
- Progress reporting internally
Project Commander has a number of reports that analyse the project for use in progress meetings and in forecasting timescale, costs and resources against targets.
- Communication
Project Commander includes a toolkit of useful features:
- Plans can be saved in PDF format or as Word documents for easy distribution.
- Any report/graph can be saved as an image which can be included in Word or PowerPoint as part of a report or presentation.
- The free Project Viewer, which allows Project Commander files to be viewed but not changed, can be distributed internally or to clients (without the need to worry about licensing or cost).
- Executive reporting
For management, there is a range of reports and graphics that can be applied to a single project or a group of projects.
Want to know more?
See our illustrated online guide, or download it in pdf format.
Online Guide to Project Planning with Project Commander
Pdf Guide to Project Planning with Project Commander
Note: To download the pdf file you may need to right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As". Downloading can take several minutes on a normal 56k dial up line.
For summary details of Project Commander, including prices and comparisons with other products, see the Project Commander overview
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