Project Management System | Features

Create work breakdown structure (WBS)

Once project scope is concluded, project deliverables can be broken down into work items. These work elements serves as a reference deliverables for duration, resource & cost estimation. At a higher level, project manager can define deliverable components which becomes a work breakdown structure for a given project. Project management system ZilicusPM lets you quickly add Task Groups at higher level which becomes wbs for you. Interactive Gantt chart in ZilicusPM makes it lot easier to create task schedule

Create Project Schedule

The WBS, higher level of task groups are further broken into groups of activities (i.e. next level breakdown of tasks groups). Using project management tool ZilicusPM, you candefine Each tasks with specific start date; estimated efforts & estimated duration (in number of days or expressed in terms of due date).

• Task schedule - Dates, Duration, Efforts
• Task Dependency - Multiple, At Any Level
• Resource Assignment

Project Budget, Billing Preference

As a project manager, you would have a budget allocated for your project. You can set that budget for your project, set billing preference whether you would like to bill customer, at fixed cost, fixed resource cost, or actual resource cost.
An integrated project management system ZilicusPM lets you define and track project financial status. While tracking project, you can also view whether project cost is within budget or ther is a cost overrun.

Project Resource Management

While creating a project plan, project planner needs to identify which all skillset and what level experience of resources are required. Based on resource skill set and required experience, estimation of cost can be derived as per resource cost rates. Using project management system you can create resource pool with cost rates, skillset along with reporting structure. Having a platform to collaborate & share, brings everyone to the common place to work in transparent environment. Project team members can also view project plan through online project calendar.

Project Resource Load

Project planners have to take into consideration various constraints while creating project schedule. Project resource availability has always been one of the important constraints. ZilicusPM enables project managers to view resource load across all project and decide whether a resource can be invited to be part of the project team. Project resource management software functionality in ZilicusPM shows whether a given resource is over-loaded, under-assigned or optionally loaded with project activities across all projects.

Project Templates / Project Import

Now you can reuse existing project schedule while creating new project. One of the finest utility one can exploit in project management tool ZilicusPM to replicate existing project’s timeline and set schedule relative to new project’s start date. While importing existing project, you will have three options as you can see in the adjacent image.

• You can simply import schedule
• Import schedule, team members and retain their assignments
• Include above two and import project resource groups also.

Project Portfolio Management Software

ZilicusPM is enterprise project portfolio management software. It enables portfolio manager to track portfolio of projects in terms of schedule, resources, cost, time, ec.

You can associate, categorize project to a given portfolio of projects. And once a project is part of project portfolio, you can track the progress and manage portfolio of projects through portfolio reports and dashboard indicators.