Project Management

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RationalPlan Single Project

WBS, Gantt chart, allocate resources, estimate costs ...

Use the Single Project version to handle independent projects (no shared resources, no links between tasks from different projects

Major features for RationalPlan Single Project:

Project Planning

Associate general project information (name, notes, links, assumptions, constraints, risks)

Create, edit and delete calendars

Build work breakdown structure

Create dependencies between tasks, set lead/lag time

Manage task properties such as constraints, fixed cost

Resource Management

Define project resources - human/equipment and material

Define specific working time for each human resource

Assign resources to tasks

View timephased information about resources' work and cost

View overallocated resources and resources that work overtime

Project Tracking

View project's critical tasks depending on a customizable slack

Mark the task progress by changing the task completion value (%complete or %work complete)

View timephased information about tasks' work and cost

Filter tasks based on different criteria

Miscellaneous

Easy to use Gantt Chart

Project Guide assists you step-by-step with easy to understand explanations

Icon Bar with specific commands for every view

Export to Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel

Import from Microsoft Project

Printable reports (to printer or to file - pdf format)

Strong Print Preview interface

No annoying dialog windows unless strictly necessary

Contents

PART I Settings

Chapter 1 Setting Up the Application

* Introduction

* Show/Hide Application Components

* General settings

* Tables settings

* Graphic settings

* Other settings

* Main Toolbar

* Project Toolbar

* Mail Toolbar

* Button Toolbar

* View Toolbar

* Shortcuts

Chapter 2 e-mailing and printing

* Setting email options

* Sending email to resources

* Print Preview

i. Page Navigation...