Scheduler Features
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PDWare Schedule Planner provides the following features:
- WBS creation with task and summary hierarchy to any level
- Finish to start precedence relationships
- Schedule calculation based on durations and precedence
relationships
- Gantt view of the
task plan; task dates and durations can be modified by dragging Gantt bars
- Update PDWare Portfolio phase dates from Schedule Planner
- Seventeen pre-defined fields and sixty user defined fields are
available for capturing project attributes; fields can be displayed
in any order or hidden, most fields can be formatted by the
user
- State inconsistencies can be highlighted (the current date is
compared to task/summary start and finish dates); the pre-defined
fields State and % Complete can be
populated automatically on user command
- Request resources or skills for the project team from the
PDWare Portfolio resource pool (work availability is provided by
the functional manager response)
- Assign team members to tasks and specify work effort required
by time period (days, weeks, months, quarters, halves, years)
- View work effort by project and by resource; color highlighting
shows where availability is not sufficient for the required work
effort