PlanningPME is a managing tool for schedules.
This software helps you solve the planning and scheduling tasks in any project. At first sight, you can take this program as an alternative of the well-known Microsoft Project: despite the differences on the GUI, the program do almost the very same thing: you define tasks and durations (GANTT chart), and manage the project resources (people, time availability...)
Project views can be switched to get a better perspective of it. So you can have a schedule view from within the resources, clients, projects or tasks. Moreover, the schedule can be adjusted to show as many detail as it needs; it can show the morning or afternoon hours, weekly, monthly or day view, yearly, quarterly, etc. Besides schedules can be adjust in its working hours, labor days, weeks, holidays and other more settings to customize it according to the region or country where the project is performed.
It offers good options to configure its views and get a better perspective of the tasks, resources, etc providing full control to adjust the views and note any change not allowed in the progress of any project.
Its GUI is easy and friendly to users. Its installation process is simple and easy to perform; the trial version requires registering personal information including a valid email address to send a code to enable the program. Its documentation is not included with the software, however on its website can be download; it also offers online support and help directly in case it requires; on its blog also valuable information can be found , tips and tricks to take full advantage of the program.
v4.0.2.93 [May 6, 2008]
- Refresh the planning with F5: You can now refresh the planning pressing the key F5
- Fast search and display of specific items: Via the fast search zone at the top of the planning, when you type the label, the lines are filtered and only specific items are displayed.
- Send an Outlook invitation: From PlanningPME, you now have the possibility to send an Outlook invitation while creating a new task.
- Tasks notifications when the application runs on the background: On the new version, when PlanningPME is not the main working window opened, instead of opening PlanningPME as the first window, you now have some notifications.
- Workload notifications with colored buttons: You now have color codes in order to know the workload of your resources.
