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 The Plan On The Net .com User Guide 
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Plan On The Net .com allows corporations to
create project plans at a central web site and
allows the sharing and collaborative maintenance of
project plan data by multiple users and corporate partners.
Your account is based upon a project office concept with multiple projects contained within each project office. Comprehensive project data is provided for resource and cost analysis; data is readily exportable to MS Excel for further analysis. Project Gantt charts are provided via PDF reports that can be saved and widely emailed. Plan On The Net .com gives your business access to project data anytime, from anyplace. | |
| Collaboration | |
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Users have instant access to the latest project schedule from anywhere on the net.
Project updates can be made by multiple users; differenct accesses permissions can be provided
to users.
Access is easily extended to your corporate partners that also need access to project plans.
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| Project Resources | |
 Setup resources per-project "private" or as project office "global" resources.
Group resources into hierarchies (e.g. organization, group, department, type).
Assign financial costs to each resource or resource group.
Specify quantities of each resource (e.g. "20 engineers").
Attach vacation or "not available" periods on a per-resource basis.
Set vacation or "not available" periods on a per-project or project office basis.
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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.
Single view shows how much is being spent on global resources, local resources.
Review how much each individual project is contributing to global resource costs.
Overview of how global resources are being allocated (overburdened) across time.
Individual projects can mix local resources and global resources.
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| Tasks | |
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Organize projects into a hierarchy of tasks and task folders.
Identify project milestones.
Associate dependencies to tasks or task folders.
Assign resources to tasks from the resource pool (private or shared).
Assign a specific resource or anonymously by assigning a department.
Track with actual start dates, percentage completion and effort expended.
Critical paths are identified by the software.
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| Project Costing | |
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An important feature of the software is the ability to provide a wide variety of
project costing data.
Cost data is always current with the latest project data.
Costing is provided for every resource and resource grouping.
Costing is provided for every task, task folder and assignment.
Costing is provided for actual work done and projected work.
Ability to restrict users from viewing financial data.
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| Project Analysis | |
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Analysis shows the percentage cost and effort contribution at every resource and task level.
Tracking data can be compared against planned data.
Based upon tracking data, system will estimate projected completion dates and costs.
Ability to restrict users from viewing financial data.
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| Graphical Views | |
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Summary Gantt charts while entering project data.
Detailed Gannt charts rendered via PDF documents (full, tasks, resources).
Resource percentage utilization over time and resource over-allocation.
Vacation days are clearly visible.
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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| 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
the non-affiliated site: | |
| 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. | |
| 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.
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| Email Enabled Project Plans | |
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Automatically send email as tasks are about to start or are becoming due to complete.
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| Project Plan Export | |
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Export project and analysis data to your computer in Excel (CSV) format.
Export earned value management data.
Import data into a program such as Microsoft Excel for further analysis.
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