Project Planning
Effective project planning with Blue Ant Project Management Software. Blue Ant Project Management Software provides all project managers with a uniform platform for planning and managing their projects. Seamless integration with multi-project management also supports planners with resource management, time management and the coordination of absences.
Blue Ant Project Management Software provides you with all project figures at a glance – in real time and without manual data editing. In addition, you can create custom reports and print PDF documents. Because project planning and control are closely linked, Blue Ant Project Management Software makes all control-relevant data available in the project plan. Up-to-date project figures are prepared at the touch of a button in Blue Ant Project Management Software for clients, controlling and management using comprehensive presentation reports, thereby significantly reducing the administrative burden.
Classic project planning
- Quick creation of a project using template management
- Support of classic and hybrid planning methods
- Simple creation and modification of project plans
- Import of all project data from templates, projects and MS Excel
- Definition of resource, project or individual cost-rates down to activity level
- Definition of billing status for each activity and planned costs
- Planning interface to MS Project
- Project creation from quote items
- Calculation methods (‘forwards’/’backwards’), including critical path and configurable conflict reports
- Project plan calculation with consideration of approved and/or planned absences
- Option to create any number of baselines using current planning and/or other baselines
- Option to create any number of links between activities throughout the multi-project structure
- Displays showing main and sub-project structures, including all activities, as WBS or Project schedule (GANTT chart and network plan)
- Interactive GANTT view (drag & drop)
- Linking of ToDo lists, ToDos, documents and risk assessment with activities
- Central ToDo lists and Kanban boards
- Determine percent complete of an activity using ToDos
Agile project planning
- Fast project creation through template management
- Support of the agile and hybrid planning method
- Easy creation and editing of project plans
- Definition of resource, project or individual cost rates down to activity level
- Definition of billable status per activity and planned costs
- Project plan creation from quote items
- Capacity planning under consideration of approved and/or planned absences
- Unlimited cross-project linking of activities in a multi-project structure
- Interactive GANTT view (drag & drop)
- Linking of ToDo lists, ToDos, documents and risk assessment with activities
- Central ToDo lists and Kanban boards
- Determine percent complete of an activity using ToDos
Flexible budget and quote management
- Free definition of costs and investment types and their structure
- Top-down budget assignment for main and sub-projects monetarily and/or in man days
- Definition of budget defaults in time intervals (month/quarter/year)
- Quick definition of the budget through the transfer of ‘plan’ and ‘actual’ data
- Budget calculation based on profitability
- Target revenue recorded manually or based on confirmed quotes
- Quotes with freely definable status
- Definition of fixed-price or work performed quotes
- Quote value based on the project plan or freely-definable items
- Linking of quote items with activities and consideration of ’actual‘ values in billing
- Creation of activities from quote items
- Invoice proposals with payment deadlines for invoices based on quotes or actual data
- Invoice proposals by means of a serial function for freely-definable time intervals
- Linking of invoice proposals with milestones
Risk and stakeholder management
- Freely configurable fields (e.g. status, probability and impact) for defining overall and individual risks
- Linking individual risks with activity planning
- Extension of risks by individual fields
- Evaluation and controlling of risks
- Quick and simple creation of all stakeholders
- Freely configurable fields (e.g. type, influence and conflict potential) for stakeholders
- Linking stakeholders to individual activities
- Involvement of stakeholders in status reporting
- Graphical evaluation of stakeholders
