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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