Short project planning

Short project planning plans the tasks of a project. It establishes a project schedule based on tasks and task relationships, and allows you to manage the project schedule and task assignment.

The results are presented in the form of tables, a Gantt chart and a dependency diagram.

This program is designed for short-term projects (a few days) requiring precise planning. For that:

- task durations are entered in hours and fractions of working hours (you can even go as far as one minute),

- working days and hours are managed,

- planning is only as short as possible with fixed task durations,

- and all the essential information is filled in by default.

For longer projects where planning can be done in work days, look to the "Project Planning" program (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jmontch.planner).

This program will allow you to find the truly critical paths that will be shown in the Gantt chart thanks to:

- the distinction between two types of tasks, essential and ancillary, only essential tasks are taken into account for the calculation of margins and the determination of critical paths,

- the definition of events, distinct from tasks, shown on schedules, but not corresponding to any work and not considered as activities for margin calculations.

To monitor the progress of the project, you can enter the actual start times for started tasks and the end times for completed tasks, and recalculate the schedule. And also enter percentages of task completion and planned or realized workloads.

This program is also:

- the possibility to define task groups,

- 4 types of link between tasks and events: start to finish, start to start, finish to finish, finish to start,

- the possibility to fix some times of start of tasks or events, and of start and end of tasks,

- the calculation of the schedule as soon as possible and the free and total margins, their presentation in tables,

- a Gantt chart showing the critical paths,

- a dependency diagram allowing you to visualize all the relationships between tasks and with events,

- the possibility of designating a responsible for each task,

- a mechanism for automated accounting of holidays,

- the management of successive editions of a project,

- the possibility of creating an unlimited number of projects, each project being saved in an XML file in the mobile's memory,

- the absence of limitations on the number of tasks, groups and events,

- saving planning results as a PDF file,

- the possibility of entering a lot of information in free format for the project and its components,

- exporting project data or results files to the mobile's public extended memory, or to backup applications in the "cloud",

- importing project data files, either via an application that retrieves files, or from the mobile's public extended memory,

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