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Business Modelling | Project Modelling | Project Scheduling | Management Information | Reporting | Linking to other Applications

  Tag indicates features new or significantly enhanced in version 7.3

Calendars | Resources | Dates/Durations

Calendars

• Multiple calendars of variable working week pattern
• Week patterns can change during project
• Optional division into periods (up to 99 per day)
• Multiple holidays definable on each calendar
• All calendar dates Year 2000 Compliant
• Show years in two digit 99 or four digit 1999 style -

Resources

• Multiple resources within each project
• Resources defined as 'monitor', 'schedule' or 'cost'
• Twin resource limits definable:
  • as total availability or permitted peak
  • as variable normal availability profile
• Resource unit cost may be applied
• Resource allocation by total value or continuous rate
• Resource rollup by code and group codes
• Tasks can be selected/grouped according to resource used
• Resource may be linked to specified calendar or task calendar

Dates/Durations

• Dates represented by:
  • month/day/year calendar format (9 permutations)
  • show years in two digit 99 or four digit 1999 style -
  • week numbers day numbers
  • day numbers
  • numeric (days) scale
  • annual week numbers on bar chart reports
• Project date/Time now for automatic update on current analysis
• Free calendar date format on data entry
• Calendar style pop-up prompt panel for dates

Projects | Tasks | Progress | Precedence Logic | Resource Allocations | Organisational Utilities

Projects

• Project task logic by precedence or successor logic entry
• Master project controlling multiple sub-projects
• Sub-projects each of unlimited task capacity
• Add logic links directly between tasks in different sub-projects
• Extract and remotely edit individual sub-projects

Tasks

• Task name identifiers:
  • numeric between 1.00 and 99999.99
  • trim leading spaces and trailing digits
  • alphanumeric task numbering
• Long and short task description fields
• Management code for multiple level coding of tasks
• Task definition as schedule/hammock/dummy/key(milestone)/ parent
• Task durations:
  • estimated task duration
  • minimum/maximum durations (for scheduling) -
  • actual task duration
  • actual complete/remaining durations
• Link task to any project calendar
• Target start/finish dates for external date constraints
• Imposed start/finish dates for manual location of tasks
• Priority code for use in resource scheduling
• Flexible hierarchical coding structures:
  • work breakdown structure (WBS)
  • organisational breakdown structure (OBS)
  • responsibility coding structure (RSP)
• Notepad text entries
• Maintain a list of application files associated to each task
• Enter an ongoing diary of notes and events for each task

Progress

• Progress can be monitored by:
  • actual start/finish dates
  • remaining duration
  • expected finish date
  • percent complete
  • percent remaining
  • percent work done
• Update task progress on data grid
• Update tasks using mouse on bar chart display

Precedence Logic

• Logic links can be defined as:
  • finish to start, start to start, finish to finish
  • positive/negative logic delays
  • logic delays allocated to project calendars
  • logic links between sub-projects
• Logic link entry by precedent or successor logic on grid display
• Add and remove logic links using mouse on bar chart display
• Add sequential or parallel logic links using toolbar buttons -

Resource Allocations

• Resources can be allocated in a number of ways:
  • as a value (budget); either a rate or a total value
  • over part of the task duration with optional delay
• Completed value of resource expended held
• Remaining value of resource to task completion held
• Full support for earned value analysis

Organisational Utilities

• Create sub-projects within a project
• Copy tasks between sub-projects
• Delete sub-projects within a project
• Renumber tasks within a sub-project (numeric task numbers)
• Create task templates for rapid compilation of projects -

Schedule Types | Task Scheduling

Schedule Types

• Time schedule
• Resource limited schedules
  • resource limited schedule
  • time limited resource schedule -
  • duration schedule -

Task Scheduling

• This is achieved automatically by:
  • task precedent logic
  • priority code
  • float
  • specified start dates and progress details
  • target dates
  • maximum/minimum duration limits -
  • resource availability
  • permitted resource overload within limits
• Manually fix tasks in time

Project Information | Task Information | Resource Information | Baseline Information | General Operation

Project Information

• Global project information can be shown as:
  • project completion time
  • project start/finish dates
  • sub-project durations
  • sub-project early/late start and finish dates
  • summary bar chart and resource histogram reports

Task Information

• Task information can be shown as:
  • all task input information
  • task early/late start and finish
  • task actual duration
  • duration complete/remaining
  • total float and free float
  • negative float (super-critical tasks)
  • preceding float (stretched tasks)
  • task working status (future/working/actual)
  • task status (scheduled/critical/resource limited) -
  • tasks restrained by resource availabilities -

Resource Information

• Resource information can be shown as:
  • resource demand per unit of time (histogram)
  • resource demand consolidated into variable time periods
    • daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual periods
    • average, total, accumulated values
  • s-curve calculation
  • % of total requirement
  • combine resources across group codes
  • earned value analysis based on task work completed
• Resource demand can be shown by:
  • budget or actual values
  • unit cost of resource
  • task selection within each sub-project
  • current or baseline scheduled dates
  • early or late scheduled dates
• Spreadsheet display for resource information:
  • display of multiple resource types
  • consolidate values into variable time periods
  • sum different resources into total vlaues
  • copy and paste resource values between applications -
  • save worksheets for subsequent load and view of values

Baseline Information

• Multiple baselines within each project
• Baselines preserve scheduled results for tasks
• Baseline results available for all reports, bar charts and histograms
• Partial updating of baselines incorporating changes

General Operation

• Data entry modification by task grid forms
• Pop-up panels for prompts and confirmations
• Full data checking
• Global editing across tasks with search/replace, case change etc. -
• Pull-down menu selection throughout
• Support of function keys and hot keys
• Configurable toolbar buttons -
• Help displays on-screen
• On-screen reports with full select and sort facilities
• 20 screen report formats
• User definable screen formats
• Split screen barchart/histogram display
• Two-way scrolling and find/goto operations
• Pop-up panels for filenames and loading sub-projects
• Fully integrated mouse capability
• Tips displays on bar charts, grid values and grid titles -
• Print grid functions for instant data printing
• Direct access to all Standard Reports and Extended Schedulers -
• Configurable pop-up prompts for
  • Management Code
  • Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Organisational Breakdown Structure (OBS)
  • Responsibility Planning (RSP) codes

Standard Reports | Reports Toolkit | Selecting and Sorting

Standard Reports
Sample Reports

• Report styles
  • task data lists
  • bar charts (Gantt charts)
  • histograms
  • project logic diagrams (network diagrams)
• Report output sent to
  • any Windows printer
  • disk file
  • HTML format for Internet/Intranet -
  • screen preview before print
  • Windows Metafile Format - EMF/WMF -
  • e-mail support
• General facilities on reports
  • sub-project and task selection/sorting
  • three levels of colour coded headings for tasks
  • twin logo display in page header
  • full range of font styles and colours supported -
  • configurable legends in page footer
  • project titles and revision details in page headers/footers
  • free format notes field in report footer
  • portrait and landscape sizes A4 to A0 supported
  • set a margin on page around report -
  • add a gutter to aid top/left binding of page -
  • report auto-rotates orientation to fit printer paper -
  • print large sized reports in sections on smaller format sheets
• Key special features for bar charts
  • summary reports with multiple tasks per line
  • configurable grouping of tasks by different methods
  • colour code tasks to custom defined scheme
  • include logic links between tasks
  • colour highlight for critical tasks and logic links
  • comparative bars of current plan against baseline plan
  • zig-zag date style to show work completed against baseline plan -
  • add text annotation and symbols
  • horizontal scale project timescale to fit page
  • variable timescale option to give fisheye dates display across page
  • vertical fit selected tasks to page
  • hatching can be used for highlighting on monochrome devices
  • range of parameters can be included in the report
• Key special features for histograms
  • up to 8 resource profiles can be included in each histogram
  • multiple histograms per page
  • overlaid histogram showing base resource usage and s-curve
  • resource limits and overload highlighted
  • resources can be shown stacked or overlaid
  • styles of block, solid or line available
  • automatic or fixed vertical scaling
• Key special features for logic diagrams
  • automatic layout of tasks on diagram
  • control over fit to single page or fit to multiple pages
  • Activity on Node and Activity on Arrow formats supported
  • highlight critical tasks and critical logic links
  • mark task progress on diagram -
  • colour code tasks to custom defined scheme -
  • range of node styles provided -

Reports Toolkit
Sample Reports

• Step by step wizard to create fully functional reports -
• User-defined report layout and page design
• Reports written to printer, file, HTML for Internet/Intranet or screen
• Command language controlling
  • calculations
  • text manipulation
  • task selection
  • format selection
  • output options
• Direct parameter substitution into report formats
• Calculations using Hornet parameters, derived data and user's own parameters
• Full text variable, mathematical and logical operators
• Extended report selection options
• Full colour selection and font control -
• Include line shapes, symbols and image bitmaps on report design
• Screen editor for report formats and command macros
• Library management of report formats, commands and other reporting utilities
• Full range of paper sizes supported
• Reports written to printer, file, HTML for Internet/Intranet or screen
• Preview reports before printing