| For example, here is a standard Customer Billing System layout. |
| To gain real insight into your project, you need to look at it from different perspectives. That's why SureTrak doesn't restrict you to only an outline view of your project. |
| Here is the same project organized by program section. |
| And the same project organized by month. |
| With SureTrak, there is no limit to the ways you can cross-cut, summarize, and pivot your activity and resource information. |
| If you're considering personnel changes on your project, view the activities organized by who's assigned to do the work. You can see what each person is working on, and what impact any changes will have on immediate deadlines. |
| Want to see only the activities assigned to a particular resource? SureTrak's interactive filters are an easy way to quickly narrow your view. |
| Here are the assigned activities for this individual. |
| Or, you may want to see a departmental breakdown of the planned work for each of the key program sections. Simply reorganize the project to see it broken down by section and department. |
| What's more, to focus on the details of one program section but still see an overview of the other sections, SureTrak enables you to collapse groups of activities into a single summary activity. |
| Maybe you need to direct your focus to a certain time period of a project? The variable timescale lets you zoom in on selected portions of a project for closer analysis. |
| Save time by storing these views of your projects as layouts to reuse with other projects. |
| By looking at projects from different perspectives, you'll catch potential bottlenecks before they happen, and in time to make a difference. |
| SureTrak's PERT view is a great way to step through a sequence of activities-especially the critical path-and study how they are related. |
| View activities from different perspectives such as how they appear in time... |
| ...or by user defined codes such as phase. |
| From any perspective you can analyze activities with SureTrak's Trace Logic window. See which activities will be affected if an activity is delayed or worked on out of sequence. |
| Review the activity's immediate predecessors and successors, or expand your focus from the beginning of the project to the end. |
| To make it easier to analyze dependencies among activities, simplify the contents of the activity box. Select from the predefined box templates, or customize your own. |
| You can even customize the PERT box colors and shapes in meaningful ways. Perhaps color code activities according to phase, and vary the shapes according to who's responsible. |
| Once your project is underway, you'll want to update the schedule at regular intervals to stay on top of changes and potential problems. The Progress Spotlight tool makes this easy. |
| Progress Spotlight shows you which activities should be worked on to achieve your project finish date. |
| If the activities varied from the original plan, simply drag the bars to the dates when the work took place. |
| To finish updating, choose the Update Now tool. The rest of the spotlighted activities are automatically updated as "on schedule." |
| You can then compare the current schedule to the schedule's baseline to determine if any activities need further attention. |
| Successful project managers are also successful resource managers. That's why SureTrak's resource profile shows you-at a glance-what your resource requirements are… |
| …whether you're checking the status of all your resources… |
| …or for a particular person. |
| The resource profile warns you of excess demands on individual resources and lets you take action before your schedule is affected. |
| SureTrak can eliminate resource conflicts for you by delaying activities until key resources are available. |
| Resource leveling helps you achieve your project goals graphically or in a table format without adding more people. |
| Corporate decision making often requires reporting and analysis of multiple projects. To make this cross-project information meaningful, SureTrak lets you plan, schedule, and control projects independently, or as part of groups. |
| Project groups give you master-level control over the structure and resource pool of member projects, so information can be effectively rolled up and evaluated. |
| SureTrak even lets you establish links among activities in different projects, so you will immediately see how changes in priority on one project affect the other projects. |