Template Microsoft Project
Template Microsoft Project
Using Excel for Project Planning
Management Gantt Charts are significantly more complex and tailored than Planning Gantt Charts.
The incorporation of actual figures into the planning process significantly complicates any planning model, as anyone who has used Microsoft Project to manage a project will attest.
The significant issue with the vast majority of management Gantt Charts is that they are driven by duration rather than effort. Whilst tools such as MS Project do allow for effort driven management, the underlying premise of the tool is task driven. This can result in very unexpected results when incorporating actual figures. A key issue is that the rate of progress is seldom linear as most tools automatically assume.
With an Excel based gantt chart it is easier to build on your specific management requirements. Many users have found difficulty in understanding the results for the project management tools once actuals are incorporated. The Gantt Chart may display complete tasks, when the project is not actually complete.
For the vast majority of users, they are best of sticking to project planning and manually updating the progress, rather than attempting to use automated tools. This can make for more predictable results and greater project control.
From experience, we have found that whilst many users may start off with a sophisticated project planning solution they will often end up with their project data back in MS Excel. hence, we thought why not build an Excel Gantt Chart template to enable the inherent process to be created and managed in Excel. This process works exceptionally well for about 85% of users, and simplifies the complexity that they do not really require. Additional calculations (pricing etc) can be built by the users to their own specific requirements. This makes the approach ideal for project planning in proposal situations, where you may need to run your pricing directly from your plan. Something that can be a substantial challenge in more constrained planning tools.
About the Author
Marcus Tarrant is the author of the Chartgantt.com templates. He is an accomplished management consultant who has assisted clients manage multiple complex projects. He has developed the free gantt chart template to assist people see the potential of an excel based approach.
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RationalPlan Project Management Software 3.15 Improved Its Scheduling Mechanism
Stand By Soft has released RationalPlan 3.15, a strong project management software application developed to assist project managers in creating plans, tracking progress, allocating resources, managing budgets and analyzing workload. The new version comes with a major change in its planning and scheduling mechanism, an easier to use interface and some more useful features.
Important changes of this version:
- Changed the scheduling mechanism such that it will allow users to have conflicts
- Added shortcut icons for the guide when hidden
- Copy/paste tasks with assigned resources
- Added successors tab in task details view
- Export more data to Excel
- Bug fixes
RationalPlan changed the scheduling mechanism. such that it will allow users to see the list of conflicts from a project. With this feature project managers have the possibility to allow temporary conflicts in the project. This is useful mainly when they want to have different project planning scenarios. The new algorithm is more flexible letting the manager choose the way he wants to handle a conflict or if he wants to keep that conflict from one reason or another. Conflicts are signaled on the Gantt chart and the managers can easily navigate through the list by selecting the desired conflict to handle it.
RationalPlan has a built in Project Guide to help managers take the best planning decisions. Once RationalPlan users become more familiar with the product this guide is less useful and can be hidden. Still there are certain views that can be accessed only from this guide. Hence for the case when the users hide this guide the developers of RationalPlan added some short cut icons for fast access to the hidden views.
With this version the cut/copy/paste actions for tasks where improved. RationalPlan is now able to keep tasks assignments when copying and then pasting them. In this way certain projects can be used as templates for new projects. The new projects will use the same resources as previous ones and this is a good thing because if the old projects where successfully completed then there are bigger chances for the new projects to succeed.
Managing task dependencies was never easier with RationalPlan. Now project managers can manage not only the list of predecessors for a task but also the list of successors. Now they can see for which activities a task is waiting for and also the tasks that depend on a certain task. This way the scheduling path of a project is easier to be managed.
More project data is now exported to Excel files. Some bug fixes where also treated in this version.
RationalPlan suite includes:
RationalPlan Single Project - project management software for single projects
RationalPlan Multi Project - project management software for multiple projects, projects that are interconnected through dependencies and share common resource
RationalPlan Project Viewer - free project management software viewer, the perfect solution for anyone (from project stakeholders to team workers) to view projects details
RationalPlan is designed as an affordable alternative to Microsoft Project with some extra-features like multiproject management and it is covering project management area from WBS construction, project planning and scheduling to critical path management, over allocated resources detection, progress tracking, cost estimation, etc. Gantt chart support as well as various time line reports are also provided. It offers the most important capabilities of a good project management software while being able to operate on various platforms starting with Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and all other Java enabled platforms.
RationalPlan Project Management Software is available at http://www.rationalplan.com. It can be download from http://www.rationalplan.com/download.php.
About Stand By Soft
Stand By Soft was founded in 1997 as a software company specialized in building desktop applications and components.
Address: Aleea Parului, Nr.4A, Craiova, Dolj, 200346, Romania
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +40727159969
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About the Author
Stand By Soft was founded in 1997 as a software company specialized in building desktop applications and components.
RationalPlan is a project management software that follows the general recommended guidelines from project management domain. It has been developed to help small and middle sized companies to plan and manage their projects. Our goal is to make the process of planning projects as short and as straightforward as possible, guiding novice project managers through each step but offering enough tools to those more experienced.
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