Executing projects small or big, simple or complex, time bound, quality bound or cost bound needs good planning and project management skills. An excellent project management tool can enhance the productivity and help managers to execute projects successfully and easily. SmartWorks Project Planner is such a software which helps project managers in Planning cycle, Scheduling Estimates, Cost Estimates, Risk Management, Critical Path and PERT Analysis, Resource Management, Gantt and Network Diagram analysis, timely status of the projects.

Project Planner Main Features:

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Easy project creation and capture project initiation phase information with project initialization wizard-Cost graph for effective project cost management

Effective Risk Management by identifying project specific risks and with Global Risk Database -Inbuilt risk management with mitigation and contingency plans and risk related graphs

Analyze effectiveness of risk management with Occurred risks Vs Identified risks; Planned Vs Unplanned Occurred risks etc. Get to know the effectiveness of contingency and mitigation plans-Analyze Critical tasks and workflow of the project with Gantt and Network diagrams

Gantt chart can be saved as an image and in HTML format-Project start date can be edited to shift the entire project

Get the status of the project anytime since project participants can take ownership of their tasks by logging in to the plan-PERT calculations and PERT analysis for Optimistic, Realistic and Pessimistic project end dates with graphs

Project end date projection depending on the current status of the project-E-mail notifications to Manager and leader and concerned project participants about important activities of the project

Project graphs and reports for easy analyzing of project progress-Support for task notes and attachments

Project templates for future reuse in case of similar work-Compatibility with XLS, MPP, XML

Ability to share selected project data by importing them to PPR, XLS, XML and HTML formats-Maintain data security by user hierarchy and login features

WBS by an easy editable and printable spreadsheet like interface to divide the whole project into sub-tasks to define what the project is Collect statistics of a project using Project Graphs

Capability to read MS-Project MPP file format-Printable Gantt chart to analyze the progress with respect to time, resources or status

Network Support provides the ability to log on to a project from any machine in a networked environment-Project tracking made easy since project participants take ownership of their tasks

Support for task properties like summary , priority , milestones, duration, status etc-Summary view to view overall status of the project