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Wireless Networking Handbook
(Publisher: Macmillan Computer Publishing)
Author(s): Jim Geier
ISBN: 156205631x
Publication Date: 09/01/96
- 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
Primaveras Project Planner
Primaveras 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 P3s 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. Its 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.
Primaveras 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.
Microsofts Project
Microsofts 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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