Shows all project management data in a "spreadsheet" pattern for ease of understanding.

Task data may be entered manually or imported from a file or the clipboard.

Independent re-sizeable and hideable windows show PERT views and Gantt (bar chart) views of the project in addition to the "spreadsheet" view.

Activities and links may be set up and edited in either spreadsheet or PERT views or both at once, since all views are kept synchronized.

Network file sharing permits other users on a network to have read-only access to a plan file while one user has it open for exclusive update. They may modify it and save it to a different file name if they wish.

Up to 1,000 activities with up to three levels of sub-project or departmental grouping.

No limit on links per activity (within total of 2,000 links).

Links may be Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start or Finish-to-Finish to handle overlapping activities.

Links may have minimum time lags specified.

Individual activities may have their dates "fixed".

Pop up "working day" calendar with 200 year range. Easy to change working/non-working days.

Activity durations and lags may be specified as either "working days" or "calendar days" - both types may be used in the same plan.

Scale of PERT and Gantt charts are adjustable both on-screen and for printing (to make best use of pages).

Reports, PERT charts and Gantt charts may be either printed, or copied to the clipboard for pasting into other programs.

PlanBee Pro adds features for large plans and for use in a corporate environment:
Resource Allocation and Leveling.

Costing Functions.

Administrative Detail Editing (Notes assigned to tasks, Cost Account Codes, Manager Names, Unique Key for use in exporting to external databases).

Choice of Language for Dates.

Automatic Emphasis - an aid in selecting exporting details.

Hiding and Inactivating Dependency Links Grouped into "Families".

Specifying "Marginal" Criticality.

Each project may have its own resources list, or master resource lists may be maintained for use across projects.

Activities may be grouped into up to three levels, with resource cost summaries available at each level.

Spelling note: the correct spelling is "Gantt Chart", but if you are doing a web search for references to it you should also look for "Gant Chart", "Gaant Chart" and "Gannt Chart" since these are very common spelling errors.

Quick Start
If you want to start a project quickly - without worrying about theory, follow these steps.

1) Download and install PlanBee.

2) Click the "New" icon (the one at the left of the toolbar) or select File… New… and enter your project's basic details in the panel which appears. You may also set a start date in that panel. Then click the OK button.

3) Enter your first task's name and duration in Row 1 and press the [DOWNARROW] key on your keyboard.

4) Repeat to enter task 2 in row 2.

5) Repeat for all tasks.

6) Now it's time to enter "precedent dependencies". If you are laying a pipe, you must dig a trench first - you will have situations like this in your project. Select the row with the dependent activity (e.g. "Lay the Pipe") and click the "Add Precedent" button - a panel will appear with the other tasks listed. Select the "precedent task" in that list (e.g. "Dig the Trench") and click OK.

7) Do this for all tasks which depend on other tasks.

Congratulations, you have a plan.

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