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PMPlan©

Enterprise Software Tools
For Proposal Workload Planning and Pricing,
Project Management and Reporting, and
Workforce Planning and Forecasting!

"Developed for Project Managers by Project Managers"

Aligned with the Principles of the ANSI/EIA-748-A-1998, DOD-5000.2, and DCAA Standards
for
Proposals, Pricing, Earned Value Management (EVM), and Reporting


In the practice of Managing Proposals and Projects, "Time Equates to Expense"!

    "The poor utilization of non-integrated Proposal/Project Management support tools (in terms of Time and Labor sensitivity), could result in a negative impact on a Proposal/Project Budget, through the difficulty of coordinating the various support tools used in many Proposal/Project Management processes, while the employment of the capability of these tools into a properly integrated Proposal/Project Management support system, would result in a much better utilization of time and effort"!

AlNik Solutions PMPlan Enterprise Tools for Project and Line Management are integrated tools developed for the planning and organization of the following:

  • Project Workload Planning and Scheduling
  • Project Workforce/Resource Allocation and Forecasting
  • Project Budgeting and Proposal Pricing
  • Project Proposal Development Support
  • PMPlan Tools aid in the planning, tracking and reporting of a project through its:
  • Work Breakdown Structure
  • Time Phased Integrated Project Milestones and Scheduling
  • Precedence Logic Networking with Critical Path
  • Individualized and Categorized Workforce/Resource Budgeting
  • Revenue Analysis and Report Portfoilo of the Status and Health of all, or selected Organizational Projects
  • PMPlan Tools track the work performed to determine the Value Earned through the measurement of schedule and cost variances to a baseline plan.

    PMPlan Tools track resource allocation by:

  • Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year, or Fiscal Year
  • PMPlan Tools track and display budgets for the workforce and other resources at every level of the WBS, at and above the activity where they are planned.

    AlNik Solutions has two primary Project Management tool product lines, with PMPlan "Enterprise" providing Multi-User and Line Management and Portfolio support!

    The PMPlan "Standard" Product Line: PMPlan "Standard", a (stand alone) single-user product first developed during the 1980's for Battelle Memorial Institute's corporate project management purposes, and since 2003, has been available for use to the general public through AlNik Solutions.

    PMPlan, an Earned Value Project Management System, is a fully-functional integrated Project Management tool, compare the features. The downloaded software is the limited edition of PMPlan, "PMPlanLT", that's available for most student applications and for initial, 60 day, product evaluation purposes. The unlimited edition of PMPlan requires the "purchase" of a "License Key".

    The PMPlan "Enterprise" Product Line: The release of, PMPlan "Enterprise", an MS SQL Server® based multi-user Suite of Project and Line Management Tools, provides significant additional capabilities for proposal preparation/pricing to DCAA standards, project management and reporting to DOD-5000.2 and ANSI/EIA-748-A-1998 Standards for Earned Value Management (EVM), and provides a common customizable database for all projects and associated resources.

    PMPlan Enterprise tools support project management and line management teams in providing for concurrent and timely access to a centralized common project and workforce resource database by all project teams, for all projects, expediting and improving the processing of project and workforce financial and schedule forecast data.

  • The project management tool, PMPlanDB, an enhanced version of PMPlan standard, and with the exception of the resource pool, looks and works the same as PMPlan. However, PMPlanDB contains additional features not available in PMPlan such as a the ability to define project rules, develop Burden Rate tables, etc. PMPlanDB can be customized to access specific project financial and forecasting data of other applications and organizational databases and/or other unique management processes, allowing for additional and more comprehensive Earned Value Management EVM) and other reporting requirements.
  • The line management tool, LMPlanDB, is a workforce assignment and forecasting tool for billable and un-billable project and overhead applications. It provides for the set up it's own project file for limited purposes, or may import project plans from the Enterprise project management tool, PMPlanDB, or other in house project or pricing tools, either directly or indirectly.
  • All sensitive information contained in the centralized database is managed, with controlled access, through another Enterprise tool, anDBManager.
  • A Management focused Revenue and Portfolio tool, PMFolio provides for the analysis of the project data stored within the centralized server database, and provides summary reports that determine the status and health of all of the projects within the database, or of selected projects of interest.

  • The PMPlan Enterprise tools provide the project and line managers with compatible tools that, when jointly applied to the common data within the centralized database, provides for timely project status reports and summary data support for the administration and forecasting of the workload and workforce requirements on the total organizational human resource pool defined within the database.

  • PMPlan Standard data files may be imported into the PMPlan Enterprise tool, "PMPlanDB".
  • PMPlanDB provides Read/Write access to all or parts of projects controlled by project managers.
  • PMPlanDB can create a Portfolio (Master) Program consisting of selected projects.
  • PMPlan Enterprise requires access to a Microsoft SQL Sever® 2005, or later (customer supplied), for the installation of it's centralized database.

  • PMPlan Enterprise Tools, are MS Windows® based Project Management software tools that focus' on project development through the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

    PMPlan Enterprise Tools provide for the integration of the WBS and the Organizational Matrix in a manner that provides for a Centralized:

  • Workforce Resource Pool and Project Database for all Concurrent Users
  • Organizational Breakdown Structure
  • Workforce Capability and Categorization
  • Workforce Management and Forecasting
  • Identification of Project Workforce Responsibilities
  • Direct Labor Rates and Burden Rate Tables (may be customized to interface with, or exchange data with, other corporate databases or commercial applications)
  • An interactive Master Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), with the capability of generating additional associated Functional WBS's
  • Proposal Preparation and Pricing inline with acceptable DCAA practices and standards (may be customized to interface with, or exchange data with, other corporate databases or commercial applications)
  • Project Scheduling (may be customized to interface with, or exchange data with, other corporate databases or commercial applications)
  • Project Budgeting
  • Project Cost Account Selection
  • Project Cost Accumulation (may be customized to interface with, or exchange data with, other corporate databases or commercial applications)
  • Project Work Authorization
  • Project Cost and Schedule Performance Measurement in line with DOD-5000.2 standards (may be customized to interface with, or exchange data with, other corporate databases or commercial applications)
  • Project Cost and Schedule Variance Analysis
  • Project Risk Assessment tools
  • Project Reporting and Change Control for WBS and Organizational Elements
  • Client Specific Project & Internal Reporting (may be customized, and may interface with, or exchange data with, other corporate databases or commercial applications)
  • "PMPlanPro": An enhancement of the PMPlan Standard product,"PMPlanPro", is a stand alone single-user product based on the PMPlan Enterprise "PMPlanDB" project management tool, but using an enhanced internal database for its stand alone project applications. PMPlanPro however, is also compatible with, and will serve as another Concurrent Licensed User seat on an appropriately licensed PMPlan Enterprise common MS SQL Server database. Some advantages of using PMPlanPro are:

  • Similar to PMPlan Enterprise "PMPlanDB", the project management tool, is an enhanced version of the stand-alone PMPlan Standard, and with the exception of the resource pool, looks and works the same as PMPlan Standard. However, PMPlanPro fully contains the same additional features as PMPlan Enterprise "PMPlanDB" such as a the ability to define project rules, develop Burden Rate tables, etc., for more comprehensive Earned Value Management (EVM) reporting, etc.
  • Unlike PMPlan Enterprise "PMPlanDB", which is locked to a multi-user server based database, PMPlanPro provides the ability for a user to attach to the multi-user server based database as a Concurrent Licensed User to work with, or on, a common proposal/project file. The file could then be checked-out to the PMPlanPro stand-alone internal database while locking-out access to the file on the PMPlan Enterprise common database and, assuming the PMPlanPro resides on a laptop computer, proceed to an offsite client location for the purpose of a proposed project contract negotiation, or for a project critical review. Once the offsite work has been completed, the updated proposal/project file may be returned to the common database to update and replace the original file.

  • PMPlan Standard and Enterprise Tools may be installed on MS Windows® (NT, 2000, XP, Vista or Windows 7) 32 or 64 bit compatible platforms.

    PMPlan Product Customization

    PMPlan Enterprise tools are powerful proposal planning, pricing, project and resource management tools right out of the box, however, experience has shown that most customers have unique requirements for interfacing with, or exchanging data with, internal financial and HR data, and/or other corporate directed commercial applications (i.e. Deltek®, Microframe®, Microsoft®, ProPricer®, etc.). AlNik Solutions recognizes these requirements, and is in a position to provide customization of the PMPlan Enterprise application modules to address them.

     

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