Every project manager knows how many risks, expenses and shadow aspects are hidden in the transition of an idea to the plan. That is why every project manager wants: This transition to be natural and keep the idea. This transition to take minimal time and effort. To obtain the results that make it possible to estimate the idea: how feasible it is, what risks are hidden in this project, what critical areas are present. To obtain a plan that is obvious, clear and detailed enough to start working at once. To obtain a plan that allows analyzing project implementation and estimating its current status.

Project managers of ApriorIT – Ukrainian software research and development company – thought about this situation too since IT projects need more than thorough management.

IT project management requires a lot of work on gathering and discussing requirements and then turning them into estimations. Mindjet MindManager® is very good for such brainstorm meetings with customers to get all requirements specified. Everyone who has experience in such discussions knows that the preliminary evaluation of the project must be done fast. Create the initial estimates and quotation, prioritize tasks according to estimates, plan iterative approach – the best is to make everything of that during the same meeting.

An aspiration to improve the process of project management the specialists of Apriorit created flexible, easy-to-use and powerful tool for work – Mind2Chart add-in for Mindjet MindManager®. Strong solution

Mind2Chart will turn discussion topics into tasks for plans with just a couple of clicks. This add-in will display them in the most popular way of graphical representation of projects – as Gantt chart.

Mind2Chart add-in allows to: Observe the whole scope of work in the project or a selected part of it. Set key dates of the project, schedule tasks. Set dependencies between tasks, automatically modify plans according to them. Allocate and manage all kinds of resources (e.g. human resources) for the project tasks, take into account resource limitations when planning. Detect problem tasks, “bottle-necks” of the project, critical path. Obtain reports about current status of tasks and resource allocation in the ready-to-print form. Estimate current project status and obtain information about project progress.

Benefits of Mind2Chart: Complete integration in MindManager Pro 7®, no external applications required. Intuitive interface, all common project management tasks are covered with no redundant extra functionality. No additional information, Mind2Chart add-in operates only with information that is visible and editable within MindManager® interface. Other members of project team can work with the plan even without the add-in installed. Two-way instant synchronization with the mind map.

Such details as automatic time calculation, automatic taking into account task relationships and resource capacity, and also elements of analysis, representation of all obtained information on the chart, printable reports – everything that makes the planning process as easy and clear as never before.

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With BSC Designer you can create a set of Key Performance Indicators and group them into categories. Each category and each indicator (goal) have a relative weight, which tells about importance of this indicator. You can define your own relative weights or use balancing function, so BSC Designer will calculate the values itself. The indicator (goal) also has a current, min and max values. Depending on optimization strategy these values are involved in calculation of the performance within metrics’ category and the total performance of the Balanced Scorecard.

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For the database novice, Organizer’s intuitive interface and ready-to-use agenda management solutions make it easy to set up and use.

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