Project Viewer

RationalPlan - Project Management Software
Multi project planning, Work Breakdown Structure, Gantt chart, allocate resources, estimate costs......
RationalPlan is a powerful project management software designed to help both project managers and teams to create consistent project plans, allocate resources and analyze workload, track work progress, estimate projects' costs and manage budgets. Whether your applications are in the area of construction, engineering, services&consulting, software development or any other business field, RationalPlan can help you to complete your projects on time and within budget.Key reasons for using RationalPlan:
easily manage your company's projects and share resources between them (multi project version)
get resources and finances under control (realistic cost estimates mechanisms, detailed cash-flow screening down to tasks and resources level)
brings project's critical issues to your attention (overallocated resources, critical path with configurable slack from which activities become critical)
track project evolution in terms of completion, time and costs
"what if" scenarios capability is offered via multiple undo/redo levels allows you to make changes and safely get back
provides a clean way to break down your project, build schedules, allocate resources and manage budgets
provides a step by step project guide which walks you through the project management process so you can lay down a project plan immediately
a free project viewer is available (which can also be used as Microsoft Project Viewer)
Download the tool from http://www.rationalplan.com/download.php

Getting truth in Projects by By: Bruce Lofland

Getting the Truth
BY: Bruce Lofland
All tasks are being completed when planned and within budget. There are no issues, risks have all been mitigated, and the project team members love each other and work perfectly together. How would you like to give that status for your projects every week? If you did, would anyone believe it?
Real projects don’t go perfectly most of the time. They have a few warts and sometimes are downright ugly. Our job as Project Managers is to report the truth, whatever that is, to the world. Getting that truth from the project team is sometimes difficult though. What follows are some tips that will help you get to that truth.

1. Don’t shoot the messenger


2. Document issues


3. Probe estimates


4. Ask for clarification until you get it

Refer following URL for more information: http://pmpspecialists.com/Blog/2010/09/getting-the-truth/