Smartworks - Project Planner 4.7 Review
Project Planner-PE 4.7, lets you track and manage your projects in the way you had always wanted. It offers you several views ( Gantt, Network, Resource, Estimation, Risk, Plan..) to get the broad understanding of where your project is heading. Several improvements have been done to Project Planner 4.5 based on customer feedback.
Features
Create projects quickly and easily using Project creation Wizard
Plan a project by splitting a project into well defined tasks
Printable spreadsheet like interface to edit the project plan
Summary view to show the project health based on number of tasks and project duration
Ability to add multiple resources and assign a task owner to a task
Mark the task progress by changing the task status in terms of percentage completion
Printable Gantt chart to analyze the progress with respect to time, resources or status
Critical path in Gantt Chart for in-depth project analysis and dynamic calculation of critical path and task slack
Calendar to set the working days in project, also ability to set number of working hours in a day
Tasks filters for easy viewing of tasks
Network Diagram to see the project flow
Automatically generated reminder for lagging tasks
Estimation view to project completion based on the current status
Customizable warning mail configuration, for lagged tasks and tasks which are about to slip
Inbuilt risk management with mitigation and contingency plans and risk related graphs
Save, Update, Baseline and retrieve a Project Plan easily
Sharing projects by saving the plan in MS Excel, XML, HTML and Project Planner Reader formats
Capability to read MS-Project MPP file format
Cost graph and resource usage graphs which are plotted dynamically
A 30-day risk free trial version of the software can be downloaded from http://www.smartworks.us/demo/pp-pe.exe
Requirements: IBM PC pentium , 64 MB RAM, 500MB free disk space
What's New: Support for Network disgrams, PERT analysis, Project summary and other reports
