The Project Management Office Toolkit

Project Management Software

Project management software has become mandatory in planning and tracking projects. It has also become increasingly sophisticated, which leads to the question of which software to use and how best to use it. At its simplest, project management software will allow a project manager to enter the work breakdown structure with its complete hierarchy, enter the duration and effort for each activity, enter dependencies, and assign resources with varying availabilities. The software will draw Gantt charts and network diagrams as well as provide various reports on resource loading and activities. Once a project has been planned, the software will fix the plan as the baseline and allow the project manager to enter actuals including ...