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 The Plan On The Net .com User Guide 
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| Features | |
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Plan On The Net .com allows corporations to
create project plans at a central web site,
track project completion using earned value management (EVM),
track project issues and allows the sharing and collaborative maintenance of
project data by multiple users and corporate partners.
In addition, comprehensive data is provided for resource analysis; data is readily exportable to MS Excel for further analysis. Plan On The Net .com gives your team access to project data anytime, from anyplace. | |
| Email Enabled Project Plans | |
 Automatically send email to resources as tasks are about to start or are
becoming due to complete.
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| Earned Value Management | |
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Maintain tracking data for each project assignment.
We keep tracking history for trend data analysis.
Display Earned Value histograms for Cost and Time. We provide both!
Export Earned Value data to Excel for further analysis!
We make Earned Value simple! We make you effective!
For more information on Earned Value Project Management, please see
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| Global And Private Resources | |
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Share global resources across multiple projects!
Define resources private to a specific project.
Use resources from the global resource project in any of your
individual projects.
Get a total program office view of all your projects.
In one view get an analysis of how much is being spent on global resources,
local resources.
Review how much each individual project is contributing to global resource
costs.
See an overview of how global resources are being allocated (overburdened?)
across time.
Individual projects can mix local resources and global resources.
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| Project Encryption | |
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Project data is encrypted when you use your project encryption password.
Your project is stored encrypted - we do not store your project encryption
password.
If project encryption password is lost,
we will not be able to recover your project data.
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| Critical Path, CPM DRAG | |
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Critical path tasks are automatically identified.
The Analysis page shows CPM DRAG as described in Total Project Control and the book "Total Project Control" by Stephen A. Devaux (Wiley) 1999 ISBN 0-471-32859-6. For tasks not on a critical path, the analysis page shows how much a task can slip (total float or slack) and the latest start and finish times for a task, without the task affecting the planned completion date of a project. | |
| Collaboration | |
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Collaboration is possible because the entire project team has instant
access to the latest project schedule from anywhere on the net.
Collaboration is easily extended to your corporate partners that also need
access to current project plans.
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| Resources | |
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Resources can be setup on a per-project basis.
Resources are setup in a hierarchy such as organization, department and
person.
Each resource and department can have an associated dollar cost.
Each resource can have an associated quantity (i.e. "20 engineers").
Attach vacation or "not available" periods on a per-resource basis.
The scheduler will schedule assignments around these unavailable periods!
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| Tasks | |
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Organize your project into a hierarchy of tasks and task folders.
Associate dependencies to tasks or task folders.
Assign resources to tasks from the resource (private or global).
Assign a specific resource or anonymously by assigning a department.
Track with actual start dates, percentage completion and effort expended.
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| Project Costing | |
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A very important part of the software is the ability to provide a variety
of project costing data.
Cost data is always current with the latest project data.
Costing is provided for every resource and resource level.
Costing is provided for every task, task folder and assignment.
Costing is provided for actual work done and projected work.
You have the ability to restrict which users can see financial data.
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| Project Analysis | |
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Analysis shows the percentage cost and effort contribution at every level.
Tracking data can be compared against planned data.
Based upon tracking data, system will estimate projected completion
dates and costs.
You have the ability to restrict which users can see financial data.
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| Project Plan Export | |
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Export project and analysis data to your computer in CSV format.
Export earned value management data.
Import data into a program such as Microsoft Excel for further analysis.
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| Graphical Views | |
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Two types of Gantt charts: simple and fully interactive.
Resource utilization is also shown on a Gantt charts.
Display for all resources and resource departments.
Vacation days are clearly visible.
Print charts to your printer.
Graphics shows planned, actual and projected data in a single view.
Histogram view of earned management data. Shows EVM trend data.
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| Track Project Issues | |
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Track status changes and issue amendments.
Add new issues.
Categorize issues according to your own category list.
Issue list can viewed in a tree structure. You choose the tree order.
Issues can be amended with time-stamped change notes.
Issue creation can be restricted to a subset of your project team.
Issue contents can be encrypted.
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| Program Office Administration | |
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The program office administrator can:
Add, modify and delete users.
Setup vacation days common to all projects.
Create and maintain global groups for ease of access control to projects.
Re-assign project ownership.
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| Individual Administration | |
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Non-admin users can:
Create projects.
Provide access to groups and other users.
Create and maintain private groups for ease of access control to projects.
Setup vacation days specific to projects.
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| Access rights | |
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Can be set for each user or group, per project.
Update access allows tasks and resources to be added and modified.
Update access allows individual resource costs to be viewed and modified.
Cost access allows project costs to be viewed.
Version control allows a user to version a project plan.
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| Version control | |
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Easy to use.
Allows project plan snapshots to be taken.
Earlier versions can be reviewed instantly by members of your project team.
Ability to revert back to prior versions.
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