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Adaptive Planning Tools’ MultiProjectPlanner is a multi project management system.
In MultiProjectPlanner all the schedules for the work teams, participating in the projects, are put together into one planning board.
In the example below the planning board for a simplified construction company is depicted. In this planning board the schedules for a concrete team, two bricklayer teams and a carpenter team are put together. (The work team schedule).
On the planning board the activities of the projects are booked according to the qualifications needed by the activities and availability of the teams. That is the foundation activities are booked on the schedule for the concrete team, bricklaying on the bricklayer teams etc.
There are three projects each having their own color.
The schedules for the individual employees are put together in another plan. (The employee schedule).
The employees man the work teams according to competences and availability.
Laying out the main view in this way, lets the resource allocation problem and the interrelationships between the activities be handled in one and the same view.
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The main features, that greatly facilitate the handling of several projects simultaneously are:
· Booking the project activities on a schedule common to all work teams, visualizes the scheduling task.
· A feature called hot potatoes lets the system accept and remember resource conflicts, until you are ready to deal with them, allowing you to concentrate your attention on the planning issues at large.
The "Adjusting the plan " scenario illustrates the concept.
· Automatic resource allocation, based on both competencies and availability, makes the task of assigning employees to project activities a matter of seconds.
Below is a set of videos demonstrating key features.