PlanningForce features

Planningforce Express

Planningforce Standard

Project portfolio		Organize projects in hierarchies and portfolios; dependencies can be set between these projects or sub-projects.
Resource-constrained		Task descriptions can be made in terms of roles, skills, levels or need for specific resources; planning depends on the resources available; no over-allocation is allowed.
Templates		Templates of project portfolios, projects, sub-projects or task groups can be created and used in a click.
Duration and load		Define your tasks in terms of duration or load expressed in man days.
Dependencies		Use simple or complex dependencies and express lags in days or in percentage of completeness.
Calendars		Calendars can be defined at a group level or at indivual level; calendars can be cumulative.
Incomes and costs		Associate incomes and costs (full or pro-rated) to tasks, and costs to resources (daily or monthly).
Coefficients		Coefficients take account of uncertainties that impact task achievement, such as illness or weather conditions, and other restrictions or obstructions like learning curves, holidays, task difficulty, etc.
Task details		For each task, the Task Details ranks the resources according to their profile match ; you can then choose to impose, include or exclude specific resources to carry it on.
Diagnostic		Compare in a dual Gantt chart, the task requirements with the resource availibility; it helps to size your resource pool to your needs or to modify the latter.
Progress status		Actualize the progress status of your tasks and projects as often as you want, so you can relaunch the automatic scheduling and easily adapt your plan and strategy if necessary.
Input Gantt		Input Gantt shows the theoretical or ideal succession of tasks.