Project Planner

Project Management software

MS Project Alternative

Gantt chart software

Program management

SmartWorks Project Planner is a software to plan, manage and track a project. It provides the flexibility to split a project into well-defined tasks in a spreadsheet like interface. This software allows a project manager to define calendar, create dependencies between tasks, mark milestones, assign resources, set priorities, maintain risk database, manage cost, view Gantt charts and more.Allows you to import Plans created in MS-Project as well.

Project Planner has following features:

Create projects quickly and easily using Project creation Wizard
Printable spreadsheet like interface to edit the project plan
Summary view to show the project health based on number of tasks and project duration
Changing status of multiple tasks and downloading multiple attachments
Ability to add multiple resources and assign a task owner to a task
Printable Gantt chart to analyze the progress with respect to time, resources or status
Critical path in Gantt Chart for in-depth project analysis and dynamic calculation of critical path and task slack
Calendar to set the working days in project, also ability to set number of working hours in a day
Task notes
Tasks filters for easy viewing of tasks
Support for Hyper links
Network Diagram to see the project flow
Automatically generated reminder for lagging tasks
Estimation view to project completion based on the current status
Customizable warning mail configuration, for lagged tasks and tasks which are about to slip
Inbuilt risk management with mitigation and contingency plans and risk related graphs
Sharing projects by saving the plan in MS Excel, XML, HTML and Project Planner Reader formats
Capability to read MS-Project MPP file format
Cost graph and resource usage graphs which are plotted dynamically
PERT view to analyze project completions based on optimistic, pessimistic and realistic dates
Percentage allocation of resources for better resource allocation
http://www.smartworks.us/UserGuides/pp48UserGuide.pdf