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Optimizing a project plan is very often a tedious, time-consuming and stressful job, because the Project Manager Officer or the Project Manager has to take account, at the same time, of customers, employees and company requirements.

Tasks are very often more difficult than foreseen and unplanned events, like sickness, occur...

Having comprehensively analyzed these planning processes over the last 9 years, ISC proposes, in PlanningForce, a methodology which will allow PMOs and PMs to increase the efficiency of their project plan dramatically.

Discover our methodology

This methodology is based on several statements and planning techniques:

Projects and tasks are described through the notion of required roles instead of required resources;
Projects are not scheduled 'a priori', but have date constraints, goals and priorities;
Risk factors and uncertainties are identified and applied to both tasks and resources;
Different solutions for a same plan are produced in order to reflect different scenarios;
The history of a plan is kept and analyzed to learn from the past;
Plans are produced automatically thanks to advanced algorithms and search techniques.

PlanningForce delivers planning and scheduling solutions that make efficient use of resources, prevent any over-allocation, and propose realistic task durations.

PlanningForce-negotiated solutions

The PlanningForce data architecture has been built to create room for negotiation between demand (the projects and tasks) and offer (the resources).

The match between this demand and offer is made on several levels:

Competences;
availability;
and preferences.

Solutions produced are classified according to priorities and goals (makespan and benefits).

This methodology allows the use of the full power of our scheduling engine whose purpose is to calculate some of the best (out of potentially billions) planning solutions while automatically performing resource leveling, and detecting present or future problems.

Different scenarios

Furthermore, PlanningForce's scheduling engine produces those solutions so fast that PMOs and PMs can test and compare dozens of different scenarios and be sure to find the optimal one.

And, when unforeseen events occur in the course of the project plan, they can easily re-plan and give new realistic and reliable instructions.