- it is a fully functional desktop application supporting project management or team management,
- it exploits advantages of product-based planning,
- it has many features available in more expensive applications,
- due to attractive price and numerous useful features, it is an excellent solution for project management novices allowing them to create plans and manage their execution professionally.
P2ware Planner Standard 2011
P2ware Planner Standard is a tool for managing teams and/or small projects using a personal computer as well as allowing to create plans and control of their execution. It is the most basic project management tool from P2ware Planner Suite, but still allows to fully exploit the product-based planning technique and other modern project management tools unavailable in other applications which are on the market.
Why P2ware Standard
Who should use Planner Standard
If you are:
- a team manager or project management novice,
- studying project management,
- tired of using various, incompatible and not integrated tools supporting only parts of project management aspects,
or if you want to:
- manage products of the project exploiting advantages of the product-based planning,
- effectively create coherent plans,
- easily create a network diagram and Gantt Chart,
- use the critical path method and PERT,
- plan usage of resource,
- easily manage risks and issues
... then P2ware Planner Standard is the right choice for you. However, if you require more, please take a look at the list of features of P2ware Planner Professional or P2ware Planner Premium.
Major features of Planner Standard
P2ware Planner Standard is the most basic tool. It offers many features which are very useful in effective project and team management.
With Planner Standard you can
- create Product Breakdown Structure as a diagram and a dotted identifier list,
- describe products and other plan objects avoiding duplicated data,
- create Product Flow Diagram,
- automatically generate Network Diagram and find the critical path,
- create Gantt Chart with subactivities, breaks in activities and with the critical path marked on the chart,
- trace the plan execution,
- plan resources usage and control their workloads,
- define individual work calendars for resources and activities,
- visualise a schedule of activities,
- create and maintain a Risk Register and Log Register,
- define Work Packages and Checkpoints,
- save and re-use plan parts,
- visualise planned and actual costs,
- associate plan objects with documents which you would like to keep in an original form,
- use plan templates defined using P2ware Planner Premium or P2ware Planner for PSO.
