How to Track Your Project Plan vs. the Actual Project Condition

The PM Dashboards solution extends the management boundaries of ConceptDraw DIAGRAM and ConceptDraw PROJECT products with an ability to demonstrate changes to the budget status, to show the project progress toward its objectives, to display clearly the identified key performance indicator (KPI) or the set of key performance indicators for any project. This solution provides you with examples and ability to generate three types of visual dashboards reports based on your project data Project Dashboard, Tactical Dashboard, and Radar Chart. By dynamically charting the project’s key performance indicators that are collected on one ConceptDraw DIAGRAM document page, all project participants, project managers, team members, team leaders, stakeholders, and the entire organizations, for which this solution is intended, have access to the daily status of projects they are involved in.

The Visual Reports solution extends abilities of ConceptDraw PROJECT by creating the illustrative, informative, colourful and comprehensible reports on a project in a form of visual graphs and diagrams of common types, such as Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Line Charts, Divided Bar Charts, Timelines, Dial Dashboards. This highly effective project management tool helps project managers and other stakeholders to report about the tasks statuses, the project progress and degree of its completion, to evaluate the project status, to depict the project expenses by days and to define the days that go beyond the budget, to compare visually the actual expenses and expected ones at the project planning stage, to generate the Resource chart depicting the utilization of project resources by days, and to show other useful information. The set of tailor-made examples developed for the Visual Reports solution allows designating advantages of each type of report included to this solution for the further use in your management work.

Project Management area provides Toolbox solutions to support solving issues related to planning, tracking, milestones, events, resource usage, and other typical project management functions.

The Overview Reports solution extends the functionality of ConceptDraw PROJECT management software with a set of projects examples and capabilities to generate such project management report types as Project Overview or Project Overview with Resource Costs at your choice. These reports allow the project managers and team leaders to track and to analyze the main information on your project, the information about project’s tasks and usage of work and material resources, to evaluate the project progress in comparison with its state at a planning stage and at the moment of previous reporting period, to estimate the effectiveness of resources use, to detect the tasks that require additional efforts and possible irrationalities in resources allocation within a single project or several projects in a multiproject.

The PM Planning solution extends the functional abilities of ConceptDraw MINDMAP and ConceptDraw PROJECT software, allowing to automatically create the spreadsheets reflecting the tasks and project statuses for people who have different project roles. The reporting capabilities of this solution are represented by the possibility to generate a wide range of project reports that allow the project managers, senior management and other project participants to be informed on a project daily progress and monthly objectives: All Inclusive Report, All Visible Columns, Milestones with Notes and Objectives, Projects Goals, Projects Managers, Project Team, and Top Level Tasks. The PM Planning solution from ConceptDraw Solution Park is a strong project management and productivity tool which simplifies the process of reporting and lets one create a document with the desired report, includes the predesigned examples, extends and improves the planning capabilities for all team members, improves the project communication, helps to accurately plan, maintain, and finish projects on time, to track the work of project resources, to perform the analytical work and to make effective decisions.

The Knowledge Reports solution extends the ConceptDraw PROJECT functionality with abilities to make Knowledge Schedule, Project Knowledge, and Resource Knowledge reports containing the information about project tasks and hyperlinks associated with them at the project Gantt Chart, the hyperlinks associated with the whole project, and the hyperlinks to e-mails of project's work resources. Now, the project managers and all project participants who are interested in getting management information by the hyperlinks at their projects, no matter when they were added - at the stage of project planning or during the project implementation, can receive this information in a moment by following clickable hyperlinks directly from the report, and can test these kinds of project management reports in the solution’s examples in order to pick the most suitable ones up and then apply to your own projects.

The Cash Flow Reports solution extends the ConceptDraw PROJECT software with the abilities to generate three kinds of management reports in a form of spreadsheets: Cash Flow on Projects, Cash Flow on Resources, and Cash Flow on Tasks. Use them to monitor and to control the cash flow in projects and multiprojects, the project expenses by days, by resources, by tasks, and to analyze effectively the project progress and the compliance of project finances to allocated budget. Having a full content and ideal view, these reports are popular with the project planning and project management teams, project participants, team leaders, and project managers which have the need for demonstrating the steps of work on projects and reporting about project progress in printed reports or on a large screen. The projects examples included in this solution are illustrative and perfectly suit for comprehending all the solution's capabilities.