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Release 26 Focus: Analyze and Optimize

This release adds four new buttons on the Kairos view. Three of them are also available on the Chronos view. All have functionality to help you analyze and optimize your plans.

Criticality Analysis: Analysis tool to help you identify what activities and external activities are most critical for completing a milestone on time. Colors activities accordingly.

Bottleneck Analysis: Analysis tool to help you identify and resolve bottlenecks to reach milestones quicker. Analysis includes all projects with higher priority. Lists and colors activities accordingly.

Key Person Analysis: Tool to help you identify what person is most critical to reach a milestone on time, how work is distributed on team members and what kind of competence is most used in the project.

Critical Path: Highlight and calculates the theoretical critical path for a milestone.

Other new features

• It is now possible to set an asterisk as the first character in a work type description to make it the default work type for new activities.
• When you create a new activity with another activity selected: Both Work Type and Group setting are copied to the create dialog from the selected activity.

Fixes and updates

• Click to select interaction in Kairos view improved.
• Some graphical issues on some platforms fixed.
• Fixed a few graphical issues on screens with 150 % and 175 % scaling.
• Added description overlay support on Scenario tab and Update Activity Status tab.
• Improved description overlay support on Report Time tab.
• Optimized timer animation to save power.

Notes for Mac

This version has been tested on macOS 13.5.2 Ventura on M1 Arm hardware.

The downloaded file is a pkg installer, that will install ThePlanMinder and ThePlanMinderDemo app to /Application.

The PlanMinder may ask for permission to access ThePlanMinder-keys in the login keychain to securely store passwords, if you choose to do so. Click Always allow to not be bothered by this dialog every time you are logging in to a database.

macOS releases have the same feature set as Windows releases with the same release number (The R-number). Any differences in functionality will be explained on the Help page.

Login links will not work in macOS. Copy the link string and click the paste button in the login window to copy all settings (except the password).

Install

Download The PlanMinder by clicking the download button. Then start the downloaded .pkg file. The installer will put ThePlanMinder and ThePlanMinderDemo into your /Applications folder.

You will always find the latest version of The PlanMinder on the Download Page, together with more general installation information.

The PlanMinder checks for updates, and will display a notification on the Home screen when a new release is available. You can download the new version from there.

This release matches the functionality of the Windows release of The PlanMinder.

Version number explanation

V The first number is the major version number (V). It increases when there are major functional changes.

The second number is the database format version number. It changes when the database format changes. All users of a The PlanMinder database must use a version with the same database version number. It is not included in the file name.

R The third number is the release number (R). It increases whith every new release introducing new functionality.

B The last number is the build number (B). It increases with every change. Minor bug fixes may be released as a replacement with the same release (R) number but with a new build number.

Previous release 2023-06-08

Read release notes for V2R25B177.