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Wireless Networking Handbook
(Publisher: Macmillan Computer Publishing)
Author(s): Jim Geier
ISBN: 156205631x
Publication Date: 09/01/96

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  Project Modeling
  10,000 activities per project
  Scheduling and resource leveling
  Customizable activity and resource calendars
  Target date, original/remaining duration, and budget baseline comparisons
  What-if analysis
  Earned value analysis
  20-level Work Breakdown Structure
  10-level outlines
  24 activity codes with dictionary of titles
  Use activity codes and IDs for selection, sorting, grouping, summarizing, and reporting.
  Scheduling
  Critical path scheduling
  Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM)
  Finish-to start, start-to start, and finish-to-finish relationships
  All relationships with lead and lag
  Free, total and negative float calculations
  31 activity calendars per project
  Durations in hours, days, weeks or a combination
  10 types of schedule constraints (for example, start-no-earlier-than, finish-no-later-than, as late as possible)
  Suspend and resume dates for in-progress activities
  Automatic and manual activity updating
  Resource and Cost Management
  Unlimited resource calendars
  Resource leveling with customizable priorities
  Resource-driven durations
  Unit cost and revenue by resource
  Variable resource availability
  Resource start and finish dates and lags
  Cash-flow forecasting
  Track budget, actual cost to date, percentage complete, earned value, cost to complete, cost at completion, revenue to date, revenue to complete, and revenue at completion
  Cost, schedule, and budget variances
  Presentations, Reports, and Graphics
  Unlimited presentation style layouts
  Reuse layouts with any project
  WYSIWYG editing
  Complete customization of project workspace (for example, colors, date, and time formats)
  Time-scaled bar (Gantt) chart
  Time-scaled logic chart
  Tabular/columnar view
  Resource/cost histograms and curves
  Resource loading tables
  User-definable start and end-points, colors, fonts, sizes, positions
  Print to fit (to specified number of pages or scaling percentage)
  Organize by any combination of activity codes, dates, and resources
  More than 40 predefined reports and graphics
  Customizable header and footer with titles, dates, logos, legends, and revision blocks
  Attach pictures or text to bar chart
  More than 30 predefined layouts
  Multiple levels of selection (filter) criteria
  Predefined and customizable filters
  Custom report writer
  Summary and discrete activity bars

Primavera’s Project Planner

Primavera’s Project Planner (P3) enables you to efficiently manage large, multiple, complex projects. It offers a single database solution (ODBC-compliant) that provides simultaneous access to project files by multiple users throughout the company.

The following are P3’s main features:

  Control. With P3, you can create a project group to reflect complex links among individual projects. P3 lets you define any number of interrelated master projects and subprojects. The P3 interproject relationship manager lets you link activities between separate master projects, even remote ones. It’s an ideal tool for coordinating independent efforts in multiple locations.
  Scheduling. P3 offers powerful scheduling and resource leveling options, including backward resource leveling, smoothing, and the ability to level selected portions of a project. User-definable options help you calculate float and lag in different ways during scheduling and leveling. P3 shows you the effect of progress on remaining work. You can even schedule or level by subproject independently of the master project.
  Multiuser. Users can simultaneously update, analyze, and report on the same project because P3 uses individual record locking, providing maximum concurrent access to your data. Security is assured: P3 can restrict access to certain project data by task, resource, phase, or user-defined filters. Project managers can assign read/write, read-only, exclusive-access or no-access on a master/subproject or a subproject level. For updates from local or remote teams, P3 lets you communicate via Microsoft Mail, cc:Mail, or any other VIM or MAPI-compliant mail system.

Primavera’s Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo 3.0 from Primavera is a new Windows product that helps P3 users create better, more realistic schedules and resource plans. Monte Carlo takes P3 schedules and simulates project performance to assess the likelihood of finishing on time and within budget. Users can evaluate the whole project or individual segments based on a quantifiable measure of risk. Monte Carlo is an analysis tool that helps users make decisions, develop contingency plans, evaluate mitigation strategies, and manage risk.

Microsoft’s Project

Microsoft’s Project is an effective tool for managing projects of various sizes. Project is feature-rich and contains planning wizards that monitor your actions and offer suggestions that can automatically be incorporated into your plan.

Project offers the following features:

  Critical Path. Identifies the tasks that risk your project if dates are missed.
  Drag and Drop Data. Enter and schedule tasks, assign resources, and establish task links quickly with your mouse.
  Filters. View a subset of tasks in your plan, such as project milestones or tasks assigned to a specific person.
  Baseline Chart. Compare your current schedule against your original plan.
  Autocorrect. Misspellings and typos can be corrected automatically as you type. Or, create your own list of abbreviations that expand automatically.
  Resource Tools. Spot bottlenecks and shortages in advance and balance workloads across tasks or projects.
  OfficeLinks. Move data easily among spreadsheets, slides, reports, and other documents created with programs in the Microsoft Office family, making information about your project more accessible for your everyday needs.
  Save to Database. Directly exchange data with a Microsoft Access database, Microsoft BackOffice, and other databases compliant with the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) standard.


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