Project Management

 

In PLANTA Project, the basic data on resources, costs and revenues, the calendars and the standard project structures are available centrally, with network plans. Once entered, these can be used in all projects, thus speeding up project planning.

 

On the basis of details stored in calendars, defining the working days and hours, PLANTA Project calculates all the scheduled due-dates and buffer times, taking into account prescribed due-dates and capacity considerations.

countermeasures.

 

Project manager role

The project manager is responsible for planning and executing his or her projects. Potential problems during the progress of the project must be identified in good time by the project manager, so that timely countermeasures can be initiated.

The fact that all information relating to the project, such as project attributes, key dates, descriptive data such as risks and opportunities, and evaluation data such as objective contribution and risk value, is displayed to the project manager under Project Contents.

 

PLANTA Project provides comprehensive support for project manager tasks. As a result, deviations from project planning can be avoided.

 

Project planning and monitoring

·         Putting together the project team which is independent of the resource structure

·         Working out detailed timing, cost and resource plans

·         Delegating sub-projects to sub-project managers

·         Freezing basic plans and/or versions of plans

·         Project progress monitoring, early warning system with ‘traffic lights’

·         Project controlling through integrated reporting to control project progress in line with original planning

·         Project controlling by means of integrated reporting system (actual dates, efforts and costs)

·         Documenting projects, including project risks

 

 

News & Notes

The current project status with open items and change requests from those involved in the project, as well as forecasts for additional effort by project team members, are displayed to the project manager in a clear way meaning he or she does not have to personally speak to those involved.

 

 

Project status reporting

·         Automatic generation of project status reports for tracking project development

·         ‘Traffic light’ status and comments such as estimates by the project manager, dates, milestones, effort, costs

 

 

Costs and budget

All information relating to the project budget is displayed in a clear way, e.g. cost details, cost type groups, key dates, effort. Reports on trend analyses and milestones can be created. Cost planning can be carried out with the aim of determining the level of costs accrued during a project and their development over time, and comparing this with the current project status (Earned Value analysis).

 

 

Milestone trend analysis

The milestone trend analysis is a sophisticated forecast tool for deadline controlling.

 

 

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