More realistic estimating and scheduling: Setting realistic expectations with project teams, management, and customers often depends on how well you estimate schedules, resource needs, and budgets. Project Standard 2003 not only helps you manage the process of building timelines and estimating costs, but also helps you understand how changes or delays in specific tasks affect the project as a whole. Pertmaster for MS Project takes you to the next level and allows you to perform a risk analysis on your schedule. This allows you to uncover hidden risks in your project and give you the confidence of  when you will truly be able to finish it.

Even better resource assignments: With Project Standard 2003, you can easily assign resources to tasks and adjust how they are assigned to resolve conflicts and overallocations. This gives you much greater control and flexibility in managing resources, project schedules, and costs. Adding Pertmaster to this process, you are able to see what tasks are most affecting your project’s schedule. This will allow you to better allocate resources and do more with the resources you have and get projects done faster.

Clear and effective presentation of analysis: After you have completed the analysis, you can automatically generate it into a series of reports. These reports allow you show the impacts of risk and uncertainty to your project:

• Sanity Check - Checks a schedule for common problems that may affect a deterministic plan and/or a risk analysis (e.g. open ended tasks, out of sequence progress)
• Compare Plans - Looks for differences between two plans and reports to MS Excel
• Critical Path Report - Shows in MS Excel details on the major critical path in the project
• Summary Risk Report - Creates MS Word report with distributions and tornado charts for selected activities

With a clear concise presentation, more informed decisions can be made to better allocate resources to get your project done faster.

Here is a sample chart of a project that will most likely miss its original completion date of September 07, 2007 (a 5% chance of meeting that date).

The project team can now accept these results and revise the schedule or…

…the project team can use the tornado diagram (below) to determine which tasks are most impacting the project schedule.

They can objectively decide how to allocate resources and regain control over the project to get it done faster!

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