Introduction

Rillsoft Project 5.3 is a high-performance software tool for project management, assisting you in project scheduling, project monitoring, project controlling, project management and the optimisation of resource utilization.

Rillsoft Project 5.3 provides the following functions for all project stages

• In Project scheduling and Time scheduling Rillsoft Project 5.3 allows you to do the following:
  • scheduling personnel resources in the form of:
    - roles,
    - teams,
    - employees.
  • flexibly recording of roles by different levels of qualification with grades cost rates.
  • defining teams by:
    - capacity and costs per hour,
    - assigned employees.
  • recording employees by
    - assignation to several teams,
    - simultaneous assignation to several roles with different qualifications, costs and stages of productivity,
    - independent determination of non-working days (holidays, sickness).
  • assigning employees on the basis of their roles and qualifications by help of an assistant program.
  • entering the output of activities (pit 180 m3).
  • displaying the activity effort ba entering employee days (such as 5 ED).
  • describing and administering the required materials and machines.
  • applying several calendar for the individual resources and a flexible scheduling.
  • being supported by the project portfolio.
  • evaluating excess and shortfall of personnel resources (supply minus demand = contingency).
  • using subprojects and WBS codes to structure the project.
  • viewing the project details from different perspectives.
  • publishing the project schedulings in the intranet / internet in the XML format.
  • optimising the resource utilization of the project to guarantee a well-balanced employee utilization and machine load.
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• For Project monitoring and Analysis of project execution Rillsoft Project 5.3 offers the following:
  • updating the project by recording the percentage of the completion of the activities.
  • providing a variance analysis which matches the parameters, such as time, costs and resource utilization, of the budget to those of actual.
  • quickly detecting deviances of budget from actual by means of a progress line and a baseline.
  • controlling the project financing.
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• For Project management Rillsoft Project 5.3 provides the following:

  conciliating the actual with the budget

  • assigning or reassigning employees to and from activities in the ongoing project.
  • assigning personnel to critical activities, so as to speed up execution.

  conciliating the budget with the actual

  • separating completed from yet-to-begin activities.
  • shifting delayed activities to the deadline.
  • optimising resource utilization of not yet completed activities of the project.