Multi Project Planner

Being a project manager, encompasses an entire gamut of complexities and corporate rigmarole involving managing whole project details along with the monetary concerns and financial intricacies. Since any project is started on the premise of success and enhancing the existing business processes, the effective management of the same is imperative to measure its success effectively. In case resource management is to be accomplished with scarcity, the job becomes all the more toiling and daunting for any individual. Computer based applications have been successfully used for effective project management as it provides compact and systematic tools that facilitates effectual planning and strategizing of projects while keeping track of all components. Multi Project Planner 3.0 is an application that can effectively assist in project management and activity schedules.

Multi Project Planner opens with a clean and neatly arranged interface with the chief options placed at the top pane along with vividly placed spreadsheet like screen and progress sheet comprising the tracking of project process and growth. This software cleans out the problems of planning and scheduling concurrent projects competing for limited resources. The application mainly works with the help of two major elements; activity schedule that represents the schedules and facilitates participation of work teams in activities that are booked as per resource requirements and the second is the work hour schedule that presents the schedules of the resources staffing the teams. Such a layout plan enables successful addressing of resource conflicts and also permits smooth flow of the resource plan avoiding any emergency demand. The application keeps the problems stored up in its memory and enables the user to deal with other options with considerable ease.

To sum up, Multi Project Planner 3.0 earns impressive rankings owing to its clear and concise premise and user friendly approach and hence gets a rating score of four points for its versatility and for the multifaceted features.

Multi-Project-Planner addresses the problem of planning and scheduling multiple concurrent projects competing for scarce resources.
The core of Multi-Project-Planner is a global plan containing two schedules:
1. The activity schedule, representing the schedules for all work teams participating in the activities and upon which the activities are booked according to the resource requirements of the activities and the competences offered by the work teams. You may say that the activity schedule is a model of your production capacity upon which the gantt charts of the projects are superimposed.
2. The work hour schedule, representing the schedules for all resources, who staff the work teams.
Benefits of this layout:
This layout directly addresses the problem of resource conflicts as they are immediately visible.
Further the layout allows an emphasis on flow of throughput over the capacity, thereby preventing sudden build up of resource demands.
Template projects lets you build the gantt chart of a project in the familiar single project management way and later drag the project onto schedule letting Multi-Project-Planner handle the booking.
Multi-Project-Planner accepts resource conflicts. They are represented by a feature called hot potatoes. The effect is that Multi-Project-Planner remembers the problems, freeing you from having to deal with everything simultaneously.
Together with a lot features, the layout of Multi-Project-Planner greatly eases the daily handling of multiple projects as well as minimizing the lead-time for the projects and finally minimizes the strains on the brains of the planner.
Look and feel of the familiar planning board.