P2ware Planner Suite - Program and Project management software.

P2ware Planner Standard

P2ware Planner Standard is a fully functional planning tool allowing to prepare plans with the Product Based Planning Technique recommended in PRINCE2™ but also very useful while using other project management methods and standards such as PMBOK® PMI®.

If:

• you are looking for a reliable project management software
• you are a team leader, project coordinator or project management novice
• you prefer to be a better manager, do more “what-if” analysis, spend more time on management rather than doing unnecessary paperwork
• you are looking for one tool encompassing different project management areas to stop using too many unrelated tools
• you are looking for an entry-level professional PM software for planning and managing projects

or if you want to:

• plan and manage projects taking fully advantages of the Product Based Planning Technique
• quickly create logical and coherent plans
• easily prepare a schedule, Gantt Chart, Network Diagram
• determine the Critical Path or Critical Chain or use PERT
• plan resources usage
• effectively control plans execution using plan buffer, feeding buffers or earned value method
• easily manage risks and issues

... then P2ware Planner Standard is made just for you.

With its help you can:

• Create Product Breakdown Structure
• Describe products
• Create Product Flow Diagram
• Prepare Gantt Chart with subactivities, breaks in activities and with a critical path marked on the chart
• Trace the plan execution using different methods (Gantt Chart, plan buffer and feeding buffers, earned value)
• Automatically generate Network Diagram and find the critical path
• Plan resources usage and control their workloads
• Level resources workload using the critical chain method
• Create your own work week templates
• Define individual work calendars for resources and activities
• Visualize a schedule of actions
• Create and maintain a Risk Log and Issue Log
• Define Work Packages and Checkpoints
• Save and re-use plan parts
• Visualize planned and actual costs
• Associate plan objects with objects available in a network and documents which you keep in original form
• Generate a series of standard reports
• Use sophisticated tabular features for easy analysis of plan data
• Print and export diagrams and tables
• Use perspectives and reports defined by P2ware Planner Developer

Despite a lot of functionalities, including those that are not included in other project management software, the price of the program was established so that it is also available for those who invest their private funds, linking their career with a professional project management. As well as improving their skills and thus increase financial opportunities, they can upgrade to a higher level version of P2ware Planner without losing any prepared plan.