ConceptDraw PROJECT Strength

What Are the Strengths of the Integration of ConceptDraw PROJECT with ConceptDraw OFFICE?

ConceptDraw OFFICE v9 integrates ConceptDraw PROJECT with ConceptDraw MINDMAP and ConceptDraw DIAGRAM into a compelling project management suite. By leveraging the mind mapping functionality of MINDMAP and the diagramming tools of DIAGRAM, you can now visually communicate and manage project data and project documents.

The ConceptDraw MINDMAP integration with ConceptDraw PROJECT enables you to:

• Leverage the input, output, and presentation functionality of ConceptDraw MINDMAP;
• Use brainstorming to easily define requirements and generate action plans;
• Display and manage task data in both ConceptDraw MINDMAP and ConceptDraw PROJECT;
• Generate visual reports in formats you can easily share with teams;
• Create appropriate presentations for specific stakeholders;
• Lead effective team meetings.

The ConceptDraw DIAGRAM integration with ConceptDraw PROJECT enables you to:

• Display project metrics in visual form;
• Create Work Breakdown Structures that integrate with ConceptDraw PROJECT;
• Produce network diagrams.

ConceptDraw Solutions Support for Project Management

ConceptDraw Solutions improves your project management activity with Tool Box, Methodology, and Reporting Solutions. Tool Box Solutions enhance your daily project management activities regardless of your project methodology. Methodology Solutions help with your specific project management practices. Reporting Solutions provides dedicated tools for generating project reports of various types and formats.

The following Tool Box Solutions are available:

• PM Response — Plan how to respond to issues and events that impact the project;
• PM Docs — Organize and create project documentation;
• PM Presentations — Deliver presentations that use all project data, including dashboards, Gantt charts, resource views, reports, and diagrams;
• PM Meetings — Prepare project meetings quickly, keep meetings on track, organize team brainstorming, record brainstorming results, and provide meeting results output;
• PM Dashboards — Extend the number of dashboards;
• PM Personal Time Management — Improve personal performance.
• PM Mind Maps and Tables — Build visual project documentation including charts, tables, matrices, and mind maps;
• Kanban Board — Offers a quick and easy way to build digital Kanban boards;
• Scrum Workflow — Use it to design digital Scrum Charts and Scrum Workflow Diagrams, pictorial Scrum Infographics, and Scrum boards;
• Project Diagrams - Generate some types of project diagrams (WBS, PERT chart, etc) from project mind maps just with a single click;

Methodology Solutions include:

• PM Easy — Supports neutral methodology project management.
• PM Agile — Supports Agile methods including user stories, iteration planning, burndown charts, backlogs, and velocity;

Reporting Solutions include:

• PM Planning — Responsible for generating a range of project progress reports in Excel format;
• Cash Flow Reports — Help to control financial side of project implementation, its expenses and the compliance of profits to expected values. Tabular reports are generated in Excel format;
• Current Activities Reports — Generate tabular reports on the entire project's progress and particular task statuses;
• Custom Excel Report — Generate tabular reports fully tailored to the needs of a particular project and different groups of project stakeholders;
• Knowledge ReportsKnowledge Reports — Allow reporting in a spreadsheet the information about project tasks with start dates and hyperlinks associated with them in the project Gantt chart;
• Overview Reports — Generate tables that help to track and analyze the information on project progress, its compliance with the planned terms allocated budget and expected profits;
• Resource Usage Reports — Tracking and analyzing project resources workload in Excel spreadsheet format;
• MINDMAP Reports — Generate project reports in mind map format with ConceptDraw MINDMAP;
• Visual Reports — Produce illustrative and comprehensible reports on a project in a form of charts and diagrams by means of ConceptDraw DIAGRAM's graphic tools;

ConceptDraw PROJECT provides the tools you need to deliver superior project results because of its core project management functionality, dashboards, integration with ConceptDraw OFFICE, and the project management ConceptDraw Solution Park add-ons.

Why does the Project Knowledge Dashboard Matter?

The simple metrics in the Project Knowledge Dashboard impacts every project stakeholder, because it relates to gaps that can occur in a project in knowledge accumulation. It demonstrates importance of documentation, specification readiness, completeness of documentation, and potential success metrics.

Individual Contributors

The Project Knowledge Dashboard makes it possible for individual contributors to know the specifications for assigned tasks, locate requirements documents through hyperlinks, work from the latest document version, and identify which documents critically impact their current work. The Project Knowledge Dashboard makes it easy to recognize changes and remain productive.

Project Managers

The Project Knowledge Dashboard makes it possible for project managers to access specifications while creating status reports, assigning resources, resolving technical issues, and managing variances from the project plan. As a result, project risk is low because everyone is working from the same specifications. During planning, project managers can also quickly determine if any requirements documents are missing.

Program and Senior Managers

The Project Knowledge Dashboard makes it possible for program and senior managers to instantly determine whether a project has sufficient documentation to succeed, identify which portions of projects require more documentation, and recognize project risks because of incomplete documentation. The Project Knowledge Dashboard makes it possible for these stakeholders to manage portfolios quickly and precisely.

All Stakeholders

Combined with the project status dashboards, the Project Knowledge Dashboard provides all stakeholders with a quick overview of how the project is progressing.

The integration of ConceptDraw PROJECT with ConceptDraw OFFICE helps improve project management by leveraging the power of mind mapping and data visualization.

ConceptDraw Solutions also provides you with numerous project management-related add-ons.

Delivers the full complement of features needed to successfully plan and execute projects, including task and resource management, reporting, and change control.

The Project Knowledge Dashboard gives an instant accounting of how your project tasks trace back to requirements documents. As a result, you know the current status of work completed for the project budget and you can analyze the quality of the project input.

The Project Knowledge Dashboard communicates the percentage of tasks that trace back to requirements documents, the number of tasks that trace back to each requirements document, and the name and location of each requirements document.