Project Planning With Automatic Scheduling
Less Work, Better Plans
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Automatic scheduling makes it easy for you to keep your plans up to date at all times. It makes it easy to change plans and priorities and immediately see the effect. We call this continuous project planning.
The PlanMinder calculates probabilities to let you know how risks and uncertainties propagate through your projects. As work progresses, you will get more information, and the risks will change. The PlanMinder lets you make informed decisions to avoid risks before they become problems, to optimize your plans, and to seize opportunities when they arise.
How to Plan Smarter
The PlanMinder separates plan from schedule. Define activities, assign them to people and prioritize them. Make time estimates with uncertainty, and add dependencies between them. The PlanMinder calculates when, and displays it in a Gantt-like chart.
Change priorities, time estimates, and availability, and the schedule is automatically updated. Your plan, which captures the core of the project, needs to be changed much less frequently.
Automatic Scheduling
How to Embrace Uncertainty
You don't know exactly how long things will take when you start, and what problems you will encounter. In The PlanMinder all time estimates are made with an estimated uncertainty, using a common definition. Monte Carlo simulations enable The PlanMinder to calculate how this uncertainty accumulates across all scheduled projects for every milestone. Both for calendar dates and budgeted costs.
You can make informed decisions on what risks you are willing to take, and prepare contingency plans to implement if necessary.
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How to be Agile with Predictive Planning
Responding to change over following a plan
is one of the core values in the manifesto for Agile Software Development. With automatic scheduling, there is no penalty for changing the plan. Make the change and immediately see the effect. The world changes, and so should your plans. Regardless of what disciplines you are working in.
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How to Empower Your Team
A team that can make decisions and solve problems as they arise, without bureaucracy and micromanagement, will be more efficient and motivated. The PlanMinder does not enforce the plan. All team members report the work they do in the project. If the work done does not match the schedule, the schedule will just be updated. The team has all the information about priorities and dependencies to make informed decisions.
Planning with larger activities rather than small tasks also reduces micromanagement, and gives your experts more freedom on how to solve problems.
How to Learn from Your History
As team members report the work they do, and update estimates for activities, they create a detailed history of what is happening in the project. This is a record that can be searched and referenced in the future. It will help you when estimating time and risks.
Actual records are more accurate than human memory, which often becomes selective and biased. Records will be available when you need them. People with memories may not be.
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What makes The PlanMinder different?
The PlanMinder is completely built around automatic scheduling. It is not an extra feature. It is the core concept. It will save you time.
Automatic scheduling makes Monte Carlo simulations possible. The risk and uncertainty information is always present. It is not in a complicated and expensive add-on tool. Uncertainty information is a natural part of the workflow and decision making.
The PlanMinder is for project planning. It needs to do time tracking, and it allows you to efficiently write project reports. But it does not try to replace all the tools and workflows you are used to. This makes it easy to start using.
Features for Project Planning
to read moreWho is The PlanMinder for?
The PlanMinder is for teams that need to plan and coordinate. For when different team members with different skills are involved at different stages of the project. For when projects share resources and when circumstances are likely to change.
If you need to make predictions for costs and timelines, and need to meet deadlines, The PlanMinder will help you. The PlanMinder will give you more actionable and up-to-date information than you are used to, while saving you time on project management.
While born from the needs of a product development team, The PlanMinder is the tool for anyone who wants:
Less Work
and
Better Plans
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