Short project planning

Planning tasks for a short project and managing project progress

Short project planning plans the tasks of a project. It establishes a project schedule based on tasks and task relationships and allows you to manage the project schedule and task assignment.

The results are presented in the form of tables, Gantt chart and dependency diagram.

This program is designed for short-term projects (a few days) that require precise planning. That's why:

- task durations are entered in hours and fractions of working hours (you can go up to a minute),

- working days and hours are managed,

- planning is as short as possible with fixed task durations,

- and all essential information is filled in by default.

For longer projects where planning can be done in business days, see the "Project Planning" program (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jmontch.planner).

This program will allow you to find the truly critical paths that will be shown on the Gantt chart thanks to:

- the distinction between two types of tasks, essential and accessory, only essential tasks are taken into account for calculating margins and determining critical paths,

- the definition of events, distinct from tasks, included in schedules, but which do not correspond to any work and are not considered activities for calculating margrummy all appens.

To monitor project progress, you can enter the actual start times of started tasks and end times of completed tasks and recalculate the schedule. And also enter percentages of completion of planned or accomplished tasks and workloads.

This program is also:

- the possibility of defining groups of tasks,

- 4 types of connection between tasks and events: start to finish, start to start, end to finish, end to start,

- the possibility of setting some start times for tasks or events, and for the start and end of tasks,

- the calculation of the schedule as quickly as possible and the free and total margins, their presentation in tables,

- a Gantt chart showing critical paths,

- a dependency diagram that allows you to visualize all relationships between tasks and with events,

- the possibility of designating someone responsible for each task,

- a mechanism for automated accounting of holidays,

- the management of successive editions of a project,

- possibility of creating an unlimited number of projects, with each project saved in an XML file in the cell phone's memory,

- the absence of limitations on the number of tasks, groups and events,

- save the planning results as a PDF file,

- the possibility of entering a lot of information in free format for the project and its components,

- export project data or results files to the mobile phone's public extended memory or to backup applications in the "cloud",

- import project data files, either through an application that recovers files, or from the cell phone's public extended memory,

- and thousand-line online help.