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Do you ever have a need to create a schedule or a project management plan? Do you need to ensure that your projects stay on track and on time? Do you need to calculate and include timeline information in a business plan? Do you need graphical, as well as text, output in bar (Gantt) chart or PERT format output for your CPM (Critical Path Method) plan? Do you find most PERT chart software hard to use? Do you want to avoid spending hundreds of dollars for one of the "big name/big buck" project management programs like MS Project, full of features that 99% of people will never use?
PlanBee is easy to use because it's intuitive. If you can use a computer, you can set up a project in PlanBee. It's even easier than most spreadsheet applications, yet with a similar interface. All you have to do is enter the task names, task durations and linkages in the grid and the project is created for you - with the program assuming the most prevalent values about task and linkage characteristics. By following the Quick Start Guide beginners can set up simple project plans in no time at all, yet skilled users can create plans of great complexity by using the advanced features available.
Features:
- Calculates Early Start, Late Start, Early Finish, Late Finish, Float (Slack) and identifies Critical Path activities.
- Shows all project management data in a "spreadsheet" pattern for ease of understanding.
- Task data may be entered manually or imported from a file or the clipboard.
- Independent re-sizeable and hideable windows show PERT ("Activity on Node" or "AON") views and Gantt (bar chart) views of the project in addition to the "spreadsheet" view.
- Activities and links may be set up and edited in either spreadsheet or PERT views or both at once, since all views are kept synchronized.
- Setup of PlanBee to access a shared copy of the program over a network is easy. Network file sharing permits multiple users on a network to have read-only access to a plan file while one user has it open for exclusive update. They may modify it and save it to a different file name if they wish.
- Up to 1,000 activities with up to three levels of sub-project or departmental grouping.
- No limit on links per activity (within total of 2,000 links).
- Links may be Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start or Finish-to-Finish to handle overlapping activities.
- Links may have minimum time lags specified.
- Individual activities may have their dates "fixed".
- Pop up "working day" calendar with 200 year range. Easy to change working/non-working days.
- Activity durations and lags may be specified as either "working days" or "calendar days" - both types may be used in the same plan.
- Scale of PERT and Gantt charts are adjustable both on-screen and for printing (to make best use of pages).
- Task data and results may be exported to the clipboard or to a comma-separated or tab-delimited file. They may then be imported to many other products such as spreadsheets and other project management programs.
- Reports, PERT charts and Gantt charts may be either printed, or copied to the clipboard for pasting into other programs. They may also be distributed by "printing" to the Windows printer driver which came with your fax card or to a PDF-producing printer driver such as Jaws PDF Creator or similar products. PDF files may be easily uploaded to your web site.
System Requirements:
32 bit Windows systems (Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP)
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