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AlNik Solutions© PMPlan© Enterprise Software Tools Earned Value Project Management "Designed for Project Managers by Project Managers" Aligned with the Principles of the ANSI/EIA-748-A-1998 Standard for Earned Value Management (EVM)

About PMPlan What is PMPlan? PMPlan is an integrated earned value project management tool that is based on the fundamental concepts of project management, planning and control, and has been structured consistent with the requirements of Government and Industry. PMPlan adheres to the Principles of Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) as outlined in the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) Standard, EIA-748-A, adopted by EIA in accordance with the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) patent policy. PMPlan is a powerful suite of professional tools for interactive WBS structured Project Planning, integrated project scheduling, detailed Resource Management, and Earned Value Management. PMPlan provides the means to meet objectives of standardization and to enable the project manager to plan and report performance, addressing the value earned of project activities against a baseline plan. PMPlan is a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) oriented development tool, and a Resource focused planning tool, with integrated Precedence Logic Network Diagramming linking the WBS element schedule and integrated Milestones defining the projects critical path. PMPlan's tools provide enhanced resource management, and detail control of project budgeting and tracking, including accurate variance analysis and earned value reporting methodologies. Why PMPlan? For Project Management Systems, the development of the Earned Value Managemant System (EVMS) has been a reflection of the need for the development of standardized methods for cost and schedule performance reporting on projects where project managers had been expected to establish cost/schedule information requirements as they saw fit. This resulted in inconsistent data outputs in the management of these projects. The lack of standard formats for cost and schedule status reporting has led to a proliferation of project unique reports, where the application of more complicated systems and reporting requirements were developed to be operated, and administered, with or within larger automated accounting systems. PMPlan is a full service PC based application enabling the project manager to plan, revise or update, status, and generate the data for simular projects, consistently. PMPlan is an integrated cost and schedule project control system that deals with internal management needs, and contractual data items, that should also require Earned Value Management Analysis and Reporting on both cost and schedule. PMPlan provides for the integration of the WBS and resources in a manner that permits identification of responsibilities, cost account selection, work authorization, scheduling with precedence logic networking, resource management, budgeting, cost accumulation, cost and schedule performance measurement, variance analysis, and reporting and change control for WBS and Organizational elements. PMPlan Attributes PMPlan: Provides an interactive Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) of the project during its construction. Provides for the inclusion of unique objectives and notes for each WBS element. Generates a rich text file (RTF) of the WBS, including objectives, notes, and other information in outline form for import to a word processor. Treats Milestones as major or critical events, and not Work Packages for planning costs. Milestones are separately developed scheduled events that depict major project moments in time, and may be linked logically to WBS Elements. Generates an integrated project schedule by text entry of start and finish, drag and stretch in the schedule view, and Activity-Sequencing using the Precedence Dependency Method (PDM) Logic Network, linking the WBS Elements and Milestones. Provides for Resource Loading by scheduled use of selected Staff using hours or a percentage of a full-time equivalent (FTE), by period (Monthly, Weekly, or Daily) for each WBS Work Package; by loading an Individual Resource across all WBS Work Packages; or by entering the total use of all Resources across all WBS Work Packages. Staff Resources may be loaded by an Individual Resource, or by Categories of Labor with rate cost variances tracked between an Individual Resource and the Labor Category. Material, equipment, travel, services and consultants may be entered by the dollar value, or through an itemized detail of the Resource that’s unique to each Work Package, and is summarized at the upper levels of the WBS. Provides for the identification of Work Packages as Deliverables, and tracks planned, actual, and approval dates. Provides an ease-of-use Earned Value Management Analysis and Tracking System that meets the Standards for cost and schedule status reporting, and will generate earned value CPR, C/SSR, Schedule and Graphic Performance Reports. Generates Work Package accounts, and a Work Authorization for each Work Package account, that includes the objective of the Work Package, the deliverables, schedule, and an agreed upon budget which could serve as an internal contract between the Project Manager and Work Package Leaders. Imports and/or Exports the schedule and PDM information to or from an MS Project File.