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INITIAL DATA

Power

• Everything is unlimited

Structures

• Unlimited Number of parallel PBS, WBS, OBS, RBS, MBS, CBS

Costs

• Unlimited Number of Cost Components and Currencies

• Multiple costs for same activities and resources

• Calculated Cost Components

• Cost Centers

• Separate Discounting Rates for Cost Components

• Cost Periods

Calendars

• Activity, Resource and Dependency Lag Calendars

Activities

• Duration and Productivity Driven, Hammocks, Milestones, Switches, Triggers

• Continuous, Splitable, Scalable, ASAP/ALAP

• Activity Costs (fixed, per work hour, per volume unit)

Dependencies

• FS, SS, FF, SF and Point to Point Dependencies with Time and Volume Lead/Lags

• Multiple Links between two activities

• Conditional and Probabilistic Networks

Resources

(renewable)

• Resource Costs and Material Consumption per work hour

• Resource Crews (Multiresources)

• Resource Skills

• Resource Centers

• Resource Production and Consumption

Resource Assignments

• Resource, Multiresource and Skill Assignments

• Resource Quantity and Workload Assignmen

• Resource Assignment Productivity

• Resource Assignment Costs (fixed, per work hour, per volume unit)

• Resource Assignment Material Consumption (fixed, per work hour, per volume unit)

• Partial and Variable Resource Assignments

Materials

• Material Costs

• Material Centers

• Material Production and Consumption

User Defined Fields

• Any number of User Defined Fields including Calculated

• User Defined Graphical Indicators (Street Lights)

Corporate Reference-books (Databases)

• Standard Resource Crews

• Resource and Crews Productivity on Typical Assignments

• Material Consumption per Volume Unit for Typical Activities and Assignments

• Volume Unit Costs for Typical Activities and Assignments

• Any Other

• Typical Fragment Library

PROJECT / PORTFOLIO PLANNING

Project Scheduling

• Critical Path Method

• Quantity Based Scheduling

• Conditional Scheduling

• Forward and Backward Scheduling

• Free Float, Total Float, Super Float, DRAG, Flex

• Shift Work Simulation

Resource Leveling

• Resource Constrained Schedule Optimization

• Resource Critical Path (Critical Chain) Calculation

• Resource Constrained Schedule Stabilization

• Material and Cost Constrained Scheduling

• Project, Phase and Activity Priorities

• Skill Scheduling with User Defined Resource Assignment Priorities

• Determination of Resource Dependencies

• Conditional Scheduling

• Activity and Assignment Resource Constrained Floats

Project / Portfolio Budgeting

• Multiple Budgets with Multiple Cost Components and Multiple Currencies

• Simulation of both Financing and Expenses

• Project / Portfolio Cash Flow Calculation with Cost Discounting

• NPV, IRR and Payback Period Calculation for Projects and Portfolios

Risk Simulation

• Optimistic, Most Probable and Pessimistic Scenarios

• Portfolio, Project and Phase Duration, Cost and other Probability Curves

• Probabilities to meet any project targets

• Setting Reliable Project / Portfolio Time and Cost Buffers

• Critical Schedule Calculation

DATA PROCESSING

Filters

• Any Filter on Project / Portfolio Fields and Hierarchical Sorting

• Activities without Predecessors and without Successors

• Activity Predecessors/Successors Paths

• Selected Dependency Types

Formulas

• Formulas may link any fields and cells including UDF

• Recursive Formulas

PROJECT PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS

Project Schedule and Budget

• Project Archives

• Any Number of Project / Portfolio Baselines and What If Scenarios

• Trends of any Project / Portfolio Parameters

• Any Two Versions of Project / Portfolio plus Baseline Comparison

• Earned Value Analysis for Costs, Volumes of Work, Materials, Resource Hours, UDF

• Trends of Earned Value Data

Risk Analysis

• Current Probabilities to Meet Project Targets and Success Probability Trends

• Project Time and Cost Buffers Penetration Analysis

PROJECT / PORTFOLIO REPORTS

Portfolio / Project Graphical Reports

• Project, Activity, Resource and Material Gantt Charts

• PBS, WBS and RBS Org Charts

• Network Diagrams

• Time-Location Chart (Line of Balance)

• Portfolio, Project and Phase Early and Late S-curves,

• Cost Histograms and Cash Flows

• Resource Histograms

• Resource Overload Bar

• Material Histograms and Material Flows

• User Defined Fields Histograms

• Probability Curves

• Scatter Diagrams

• Portfolio / Project Truncation

• Earned Value Graphical and Tabular Reports

• Portfolio / Project Parameter Trends Graphical and Tabular Reports

• Out of Sequence Activities Report

• Success Probability Trends Graphical and Tabular Reports

• Trends of Any Parameter Graphical and Tabular Reports

• Comparative Portfolio, Project, Activity, Resource, and Material Gantt Charts

• Comparative Time-Location Chart

• Performance Reports for Any Time Interval

Tabular Reports

• Any tabular report on planned and actual portfolio, project, phase, activity, resource, material, cost data and user defined fields for any period, including user defined

OTHER TOOLS

• Script Language

• Multiple Project and Portfolio Configurations

• Unlimited Undo’s and Protocol of Actions

• Performance Archives

• Portfolio and Project Access Rights

• Search and Replace

• Customizable Report and Print Templates

• Conditional Gantt Chart bar colors

• Time Scale from minutes to years

• Work with Multiple Windows

• Web Actual Data Reporting

• Export/Import to/from Excel, Text, MS Project xml, Primavera xer, mpx, MS SQL Server and Oracle databases

• Free Viewers

HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

• Any version of Windows