PlanningForce
PlanningForce is the result of 5 years of R&D. The main motivations that guided our work are the following:
- There is an increasing gap between how existing tools like Microsoft Project conceive project management and the real needs of the field
- The usefulness of these tools is very often limited to drawing and presenting a raw estimate of what could be a project plan
- With these tools, to adapt projects to reality leads to tedious and time-consuming hand-made calculations
- Some of the most relevant dimensions of project management, like competences, efficiency, risks, levelling, project and resource priorities, are also completely ignored by these tools
As a consequence, there is room for new methodology and a new product based on:
- A more precise description of projects and resources
- A simplified and more intuitive user interface
- Logical workflows and phasing (simulations – plans – progress statuses)
- Computer-assisted calculations for resource levelling and task dates
- Skills, levels, coefficients, efficiencies, and probability distributions
PlanningForce has been tested, refactored, and tuned during the last two years just to let you experience the most advanced features available in a project planning tool today.