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Plans made easy
Excel outputs not professional enough?
MS Project too complex or expensive?
This puts you in the unsupported middle ground with 80% of all projects and Planner should be the answer to all your prayers. Completely free and professional planning tool. It is intuitive enough to pick up and use if you have never used planning tools before and yet providing the well established features that most PMs and planners rely on in MS Project.
Use Planner to create traditional plans with an unlimited number of tasks, group them into autocalculating summaries and nest/indent this down to seven levels. Resource your tasks, record % complete and include addition details about the task including links. Cut, copy and paste tasks set predecessors. All this from a point and click interface and one basic task form designed to make planning easily accessible.
Once your plan is produced you can share it easily as an image into a document or by passing on the file to others to edit or view. Of course it keeps getting better....if you use PIAB’s Small Team or Enterprise Editions you can load your plan direct into our planning and resourcing system and integrate your data with many other projects including from MS Project and cross resource and task manage.
A single install or upgrade now gives you both Community Edition and Planner in one step and of course just like Community Edition it can be used in Portable mode or installed to your desktop.
Now also with Risks and Issues
With Planner you can also collect, manager, analyse and share your risk and issue information, all in the one file...and still free.
You can collect your risks and issues and personalise the format of data to suit your organisation’s systems or level of maturity. The default set up matches the recommended format in PRINCE2 2009 giving you a head start in your compliance.
Sort analyse and filter your data and then use charts to analyse. As with the plans you can copy the images to other documents or save your .spn planner file and share your project controls data with other team members by asking them to download Planner. Also upload your .spn file and have its risk and issue data compiled and analysed at portfolio level.
‘In planning terms the space between a piece of paper and MS Project is huge and that’s where Planner comes in. It does what it says on the tin with all the capabilities of MS Project that you see used in 90% of all plans every produced’
Malcolm West
Simple Plan Features
It does the following for free!
- Task name and further details
- Unique duration setting by fixed dates, start plus days or predecessor plus dates
- Add resources and allocation %
- Creates project resource list
- % complete by task
- Group tasks into summaries
- Auto calc summary dates and %
- Move and copy tasks
- View interactive Gantt
- Click to edit and custom order tasks
- Alter display time frame
- Gantt as image in one click
- Save your plan and share for free
- Bundled with Comunity Edition
- Upload into PROJECT in a box to integrated into organisation wide resource and task management
- Risk logging, management, analysis and communications
- Issue logging, management, analysis and communications
- Completely FREE!
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The perfect companion planning tool simple to layout, schedule your projects and even resource them. Then share the files with anyone you want. Easy to pick up and use even if you haven’t used MS Project before...if you have..well it’s like MS Project made easy.
Shipped as standard, unlimited use and share of your plans.
Shipped as standard, unlimited use and share of your plans.
Shipped as standard, unlimited use and share your plans, upload to planning engine to set notifications and manage resourcing.
Shipped as standard, unlimited use and share your plans, upload to planning engine to set notifications and manage resourcing.
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