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RPM 3.3 ProjectS Management System         Registration $295.00
SDN_BUSI JUN93 PROJECTS MANAGEMENT RESOURCES SCHEDULING GANTT
FILES: rpm33.sdn

Author: South Pointe Software - Lee Moller

Welcome to this shareware version of RPM - The Resources and Projects
Manager. RPM is the only projectS management system that focuses on
managing all your projects and resources at once -- with no knowledge
of CPM (Critical Path Method) or PERT (Program Evaluation and Review
Technique) required.

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RPM - WHAT IS IT
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RPM is both a projectS and resourceS (emphasis on the "s") management
system.

RPM is NOT a replacement for standard critical path project
management applications. These applications are essential tools in
the management of large, "high-risk" projects. The definition of
"high risk" is somewhat relative, of course, but any project that
might be described as "mission-critical" for your organization,
with a great number of activities (tasks), should be planned in some
detail, using a critical path product that can schedule activities,
level resources and point out critical problems.

However, many organizations have many projects on the go at once.
Usually these projects can be described as relatively "low-risk"
and, while they should still be planned, the level of effort
required to build and maintain a critical path plan for each may be
prohibitive. It is for this situation that RPM was designed.

RPM allows you to model all your projects quickly using a familiar
spreadsheet-like arrangement for each project. A project consists of
resources across the top of the "sheet" and phases down the side.
Estimates of efforts and dates can be made on a project, phase,
resource or cell (the intersection of a resource and phase) level.

The Gantt/Utilization screen lets you see up to six resources on
screen simultaneously (VGA), so you can immediately assess the impact
of any project or group of projects on any resources or group of
resources at a glance.

Projects can be updated in minutes with just a few percent-complete
numbers. Progress information can be imported directly from many
project accounting systems.

RPM lets you assign individuals (e.g.: Jim Smith), groups of individuals
(e.g.: project managers), disciplines (e.g.: architects), departments
and other resource or organizational structures to a project. RPM can
be setup, for example, so that if Jim Smith was also designated as an
architect, his utilization on any given project would be removed from
the availability of architects for other projects.

In addition, RPM produces presentation quality reports, including
resource utilization curves and Gantt (bar) charts. Reports can be
written to file as Lotus files to produce spreadsheet based graphs, if
desired. Also, the ASCII import facility means that RPM can be updated
automatically from many financial/project accounting/staff time sheet
systems.

For projects that have not begun, a percent likelihood of actually doing
the work can be assigned to the project. Thus, expected values of future
work can be estimated in both hours and dollars.



Hardware Requirements : IBM PC, PC-compatible or MS-DOS computer. 512k
RAM (640k recommended); 1 floppy drive; MDA, CGA, EGA or VGA monitor
(some super VGA boards are also supported). PCL level 4 printers
supported (e.g. HP Laserjet).

Software Requirements: DOS verson 2 or higher; access to a text editor
(e.g.: EDIT in DOS 5).





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