planning Project Management Tools

ConceptDraw Project 4 is a comprehensive tool for project planning and resource management. It lets you determine all essential elements involved into project, control resources and funds, and monitor projects progress in an easy to learn and use way.

Tags: project, resources, resources management, Gantt chart, project scheduling software, work projects brainstorming, project management software, project planning software

The Project Planning and Management template is designed as a generic solution to plan and manage any project. Building the budget as tasks are identified facilitates the processes of business case proposal, valuation and funding. Progress can be monitored from automatic creation and updating from remote participant workbooks. Project performance can be monitored with best practice Earned Value Analysis throughout the complete project lifecycle.

Tags: Excel, business, project, planning, management, tasks, earned, value, analysis, gantt

AccuPlan is simple to use, yet powerful and feature rich project planning software. Many of its features are only available in very expensive software packages. AccuPlan will let you carve the path to successful implementation and management of projects and processes, and let you optimize your time and resources. AccuPlan helps you effortlessly manage tasks, resources, budgets and timelines.

Tags: Project Planning, Gant chart, Project Tracking, Time sheet, Accuplan, resource scheduling, WBS, tasks, pert

ProjectCompanion supports project execution through project plans, project status reports, document sharing, action delegation and project diaries. It also provides support for time and expense reporting, as well as invoicing and accounting integration.

Tags: project, actions, tasks, expenses, billing, invoicing, tracking, planning, documents, professional services

ThoughtOffice Inventor's modular session/topic model works to enhance your creative & thinking processes. ThoughtOffice Inventor Software includes expert system modules for product developers & problem solvers. Explore over 7,300,000 unique words, phrases and images in systematic combinations to reveal and inspire ideas that escape "linear" thinking. With ThoughtOffice Inventor you will bring great, innovative products to market more quickly.

Tags: brainstorming, inventing, speaking, creativity, speech, creative writing, groupware, press release, public relations, PR

Multiple concurrent projects competing for shared resources is at the very focus of Multi-Project-Planner. The project activities are booked on a schedule, common to all work teams. I.e. the Gantt charts of the projects are superimposed upon this common schedule. This way both resource allocation and the interrelationships between the activities are handled in one and the same view. Look and feel of the familiar planning board.

Tags: project, planning, planner, board, portfolio, scheduling, resource allocation

ProjectTrack Personal Edition is an inclusive software program that will help you execute your plan. It integrates all the tools and information that you need to manage any kind of project, big or small. Keep track of your tasks, issues, risks, meetings, changes, contacts and even documents. Collaborate and share data with your team members, clients and sponsors. No other tool on the market more completely manages projects from start to finish.

Tags: action, client, contact, customer, document, email, excel, gantt, initiative, issue

RiskyProject is advanced project management software with integrated risk analysis. Project managers can use RiskyProject for planning, scheduling, quantitative risk analysis, and performance measurement of projects with multiple risks and uncertainties. RiskyProject allows managers to improve their ability to predict the course of projects and determine how risks and uncertainties will affect the project.

Tags: project management, risk management software, project planning, project scheduling, quantitative risk analysis, performance measurement, project risk analysis, event chain methodology

Critical Path Project Management planning tool. Inexpensive alternative to MS Project. Shows all project data in a spreadsheet pattern for ease of understanding. Independent re-sizeable and hideable windows show PERT views and Gantt (bar chart) views of the project in addition to the spreadsheet view. Reports, PERT charts and Gantt charts may be either printed or copied to the clipboard. Web page reports may be generated (Pro version).

Tags: project management, planning, project, PERT, Gantt

bluevizia Advertising Manager accompanies you in your successful ad campaigns. Now there is a tool that poses the right questions, proposes the best solutions and helps create an advertising plan - know-how, historically preserved for the experts. With this powerful and easy-to-use app you get full control over your ad campaign planning, implementation, evaluation and control and plenty of useful expertise about advertising and media planning.

Tags: advertising, campaign planning, creative software, professional tool, management, manager, suite, app, application, mix

Industrial Production Manager and Stock Control software. This software will let you control any production, stock, order or supplier. You can define unlimited products, create multiple suppliers and/or companies, control orders, check productions and materials, define composite products, calculate orders and stocks, control lead times, production and break-down hours, define subcontractors, and some more.. Works with one or multiple companies.

Tags: Industry, Stock, Control, Inventory, Orders, Supplier, Planning, Contract, Business, Engineering

GoalEnforcer is a visual and intuitive goal setting and checklist organizer software tool with a point-and-click user interface. You can get started in minutes with few quick steps. Set goals and organize tasks and checklists by dragging and dropping virtual spheres. Color coded and pleasant to use. Break bigger goals/tasks into smaller subgoals/subtasks and achieve more with less effort. Nice status reports and progress chart keep you motivated.

Tags: goal setting software, task list software, task planner, task manager, goal planning software, goal monitoring, task monitoring, project management, work breakdown structure software, wbs software

RationalPlan Single Project by Stand By Soft is a powerful project management software designed as an affordable alternative to Microsoft Project. The application is covering project management area from WBS construction, project planning and scheduling to critical path management, overallocated resources detection, progress tracking, cost estimation, etc. Gantt chart support as well as various time line reports are also provided.

Tags: project management software, schedule, gantt chart, critical path, Microsoft Project, wbs, work breakdown structure, overallocated resource, project, task scheduling

Free Project Management Software - Windows/Linux/Mac, Supports resource leveling/optimizer, parent/child task structures and familiar linking relationships. Flexible resource scheduling: multiple calendars, timezones, part-time and shifts. Calendar nesting, schedule inheritance and overiding are all supported. Fixed work and fixed duration task types. Drag and drop of resources and tasks. Full chart/table printing with adjustable scaling.

Tags: free, software, application, gantt, chart, gant, time, schedule, scheduling, resource