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can make every one of your projects more successful by planning and
orchestrating -- and following up on -- your use of your resources,
your people, your equipment, your inventory, your suppliers, etc.
With PowerPLAN,
the Cherniak Software Project Management System,
you will be able to
- set up
projects and a hierarchy of tasks within each project,
a hierarchy that will provide for summary analysis at whatever
level you would like
- assign
each project to a leader and each task to a main worker/person
responsible
- specify
planned start and finish dates for each task
- make estimates
of time needed for each task and optionally, set out which person
is to do how much of the work
- generate
`to do' lists for people, lists that indicate
not only which tasks are to be done when but also (for each) the
amount of
- slip
-- difference between original estimate and adjusted/current
estimate
- time
ahead (extra time available) or behind
(past current adjusted estimate)
With this
report, tasks can be re-assigned and priorities can be changed
and/or estimates re-adjusted.
- generate
various form(at)s of Project Status Reports showing
either the status of all projects (by project leader), with or
without tasks, or only those projects/tasks that need action (e.g.
are behind and need expediting or will be late)
- enter work
done for what task when by whom, with comments -- either by full
screen entry or single `command' line -- with full lookup and
verification re: existing projects, tasks, work types, with checks
against assigning work to inactive projects, completed tasks,
etc.
- enter bills
and adjustments against work done for external projects and (as
an option) track the billing against a detailed set of charges
with planned payment plan -- with full support for change
orders
- track work
still to be billed
- analyze
work done in many ways, e.g. by project/task, by worker,
at detail level or at summary level
- print a
Gantt Chart to display what is to be done when
- track changes
in target dates
- track ongoing
maintenance/support contracts
- track
Purchase orders by project
- track disbursements
by project, compare to `materials' budget
- follow-up
in a timely fashion as enforced by system. Automatic
notifications provided by the system of time not yet logged, projects
not yet billed, etc., notifications that escalate to supervisors
if the situation is not rectified in a timely fashion
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