Project Planning and Management

Any project initiative is planned and designed for long term success and benefit to the organization and includes varied elements that enable the management to deploy resources for managing the tasks and activities pertaining to the project which includes workforce training and assistance. Further, the budget part is also an immensely vital requirement that needs funding from the top management and organization committee. For instance, a project to introduce a fresh procedure in the existing business processes that aims to save time and effort and improvises the efficiency in services would obviously require permission and successful initiation before it can be executed at a larger scale. Project Planning and Management 1.0 is an application that offers numerous tools to effectually manage and run a project.

Project Planning and Management 1.0 opens with a vivid looking interface with the chief options placed across intuitively. The application is capable of streamlining the tasks associated with the project and managing their details and measuring effectiveness in a strategic manner. Manifold tools and options to foresee project dynamics and processes and make it worthy of the investment that was put in. This cost effective and affordable application is an Excel based solution that facilitates business processes and valuation analysis that requires funding. The Earned Value Analysis caters to the entire project lifecycle defines the project tasks and parameters along with task titles and managing the project schedule. Gantt scheduling chart facility is embedded with task information and closely monitoring the task progress and project members’ activities list. The e-mailing feature keeps all members in close contact and enables measurement of activities.

To sum up, Project Planning and Management definitely proves to be a wondrous utility for effective project management and professional work issues and hence gets a rating score of five points for its enhanced working.

The Excel Project Planning and Management template is designed as a generic and affordable Excel based solution to plan and manage any project. The ability to build the project's budget as tasks are identified facilitates the processes of business case proposal, valuation analysis and securing required project funding. Project dynamics can be altered and performance monitored with best practice Earned Value Analysis throughout the complete project life cycle. The Project Planning and Management template provides the ability to define the project budget as tasks are defined. Project phases, task titles, holidays and other key project parameters can be predefined to accelerate work flow. Task dependencies and timing constraints are taken into account for the automatic calculation of task timing. A project Gantt schedule with daily, weekly or monthly intervals is created with embedded task information. The project status report details overall project progress based on Earned Value Analysis with trends displayed for cost and schedule performance indices. Individual workbooks with task lists for each project participant can be generated and subsequent batch import function used to automate the update of the project progress and status. The Project Planning and Management template is compatible with Excel 97-2013 for Windows and Excel 2011 or 2004 for Mac as a cross platform project management solution.