PlanBee Pro Project Management

Do you ever need to create a schedule or a project management plan? Do you need to ensure that your projects stay on track and on time? Do you need to calculate and include time line information in a business plan? Do you need graphical, as well as text, output in bar (Gantt) chart or PERT format output for your CPM (Critical Path Method) plan? Do you find most PERT chart software hard to use? Do you want to avoid spending hundreds of dollars for one of the "big name/big buck" project management software like Microsoft Project, full of features that 99% of people will never use?

If you are looking for a simple project management software, then you come to the right place.

PlanBee Pro Project Management is a critical Path project management planning tool, an inexpensive alternative to Microsoft Project. Calculates Early Start, Late Start, Early Finish, Late Finish, Float (Slack) and identifies Critical Path activities. Calculates and summarizes resource costs. Shows all project data in a "spreadsheet" pattern for ease of understanding. Data may be manually entered or imported from a file or the clipboard. Independent re-sizeable and hideable windows show PERT views and Gantt (bar chart) views of the project in addition to the "spreadsheet" view. Activities and links may be set up and edited in either spreadsheet or PERT views or both at once, since all views are kept synchronized. Up to 1,000 activities. No limit on links per activity (within total of 2,000 links). Links may be Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start or Finish-to-Finish to handle overlapping activities. Links may have minimum time lags specified. Individual activities may have their dates "fixed".

Pop up "working day" calendar with 200 year range. Easy to change working/non-working days. Activity durations and lags may be specified as either "working days" or "calendar days" - both types may be used in the same plan. Scale of PERT and Gantt charts are adjustable both on-screen and for printing (to make best use of pages). Reports, PERT charts and Gantt charts may be either printed, or copied to the clipboard for pasting into other programs. Each project may have its own resources list, or master resource lists may be maintained for use across projects. Activities may be grouped into up to three levels, with resource cost summaries available at each level.

On a network other users may have read-only access while one user has a file open for exclusive update. Includes features for use with larger plans and in a corporate environment, including resource leveling, costing, administrative detail and enhanced export facilities including the generation of HTML (web page) reports.


PlanBee Pro Project Management is easy to use because it's intuitive. If you can use a computer, you can set up a project in PlanBee Pro Project Management. It's even easier than most spreadsheet applications, yet with a similar interface. All you have to do is enter the task names, task durations and linkages in the grid and the project is created for you - with the program assuming the most prevalent values about task and linkage characteristics. By following the Quick Start Guide beginners can set up simple project plans in no time at all, yet skilled users can create plans of great complexity by using the advanced features available.