FastTrack Schedule is a simple planning tool for managing projects, tasks, events and activities. The program's approach to scheduling is straight forward so anyone who has deadlines to contend with can use and understand FastTrack Schedule in minutes.
The program lets you organise information in the form of a Gantt chart or bar chart╨a standard schedule format. Bars and milestones are drawn quickly and easily right on screen.
With FastTrack Schedule, you can produce charts that are calibrated in a variety of scales and scales combinations. And adjusting schedules is painless
Schedules that you create with the program can be visually appealing as well as informative. They can include graphics, titles, borders, dates, times, labels and logos along with much more.
FastTrack Schedule is the ideal solution for people who need to create precise, presentation quality Gantt chart schedules without the frustration that goes along with tackling more complicated project management programs.
After all, when scheduling is made easy, you can pay more attention to your projects and their deadlines, and less attention to your software
A list of events or activities can be entered quickly in an outline format and the items can then be rearranged by simply dragging them up or down with-in the list. This flexibility promotes brainstorming and allows for a realistic approach to planning project activities.
The outline creates a hierarchy of activities and sub-activities and can be collapsed to show summaries for a general view of projects or expanding to a zoomed in view of activities
Activity durations, start dates and deadlines are indicated by drawing bars and milestones directly on a custom timeline chart.
Editing or re-thinking the activity dates is achieved painlessly by either dragging or stretching bars to new places on the timeline, or by typing dates and durations into data columns that automatically update or draw bars. This dual interface of drawing or typing in activities allows you to work within an environment of your choice which just might make you work more often on your schedules
But FastTrack Schedule offers more than just a great interface for hacking out simple schedules! It offers project management and scheduling depth, too. When the start date of one activity depends on the finish date of another activity, links can be created by drawing lines from one point to the next. So if extending the deadline for task A conflicts with the start date for task B, the effected task will automatically shift
Sometimes, the schedules that are originally planned don't turn out to be the schedules that actually occur. FastTrack Schedule has been created with this scheduling reality in mind, and includes some scheduling vs. actual options for displaying these real-life project fluctuations. The comparisons can be viewed graphically via bar types on the chart, or as text in data columns or bar labels.
