Hi, Samuel. One more thing: Spider Project computes critical path drag, the most important metric in critical path analysis. Asta Powerproject has also apparently announced that their new version computes drag.
As far as I know, no other commercial s/w package computes critical path drag.
I expect that there are many tools that fit to your requirements.
I see your problem as portfolio management task.
One of potential solutions is to use Spider Project Professional that can manage projects and portfolios of any size and complexity.
In your concrete case you may need skill scheduling and I don't know other software that has this functionality.
You shall create the lists of resources that have certain required skills (translators from certain language, proof readers, reviewers, etc.). Resources belonging to the same skill may have different productivity (one translates 10 pages per day, another one 7 pages per day, etc.). Then you may assign resource skills to the tasks of the new projects. Each task has certain volume of work that may be measured in pages and type (language and area). The software will automatically assign resources basing on their availability, productivity and cost and taking into account your manually entered priorities.
To automate the work I suggest to create the databases (reference-books) of your resources, skills, resource productivity on different work types. If such databases will be created then entering activity (task) type you can automate everything else - what skill is required, what productivity will have assigned resources.
You will schedule the whole portfolio to get the planned dates of individual projects and resource plans.
You can also enter existing uncertainty, simulate risks and get reports on probabilities to meet set targets.
Let me know if this is the functionality you are looking for.
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20 years 7 monthsHi, Samuel. One more thing:
Hi, Samuel. One more thing: Spider Project computes critical path drag, the most important metric in critical path analysis. Asta Powerproject has also apparently announced that their new version computes drag.
As far as I know, no other commercial s/w package computes critical path drag.
Fraternally in project management,
Steve the Bajan
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9 years 2 monthsThanks a lot
Thanks a lot Vladimir!
Spider Project looks like a pretty good option and we're seriously considering with Project Server.
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24 years 8 monthsI expect that there are many
I expect that there are many tools that fit to your requirements.
I see your problem as portfolio management task.
One of potential solutions is to use Spider Project Professional that can manage projects and portfolios of any size and complexity.
In your concrete case you may need skill scheduling and I don't know other software that has this functionality.
You shall create the lists of resources that have certain required skills (translators from certain language, proof readers, reviewers, etc.). Resources belonging to the same skill may have different productivity (one translates 10 pages per day, another one 7 pages per day, etc.). Then you may assign resource skills to the tasks of the new projects. Each task has certain volume of work that may be measured in pages and type (language and area). The software will automatically assign resources basing on their availability, productivity and cost and taking into account your manually entered priorities.
To automate the work I suggest to create the databases (reference-books) of your resources, skills, resource productivity on different work types. If such databases will be created then entering activity (task) type you can automate everything else - what skill is required, what productivity will have assigned resources.
You will schedule the whole portfolio to get the planned dates of individual projects and resource plans.
You can also enter existing uncertainty, simulate risks and get reports on probabilities to meet set targets.
Let me know if this is the functionality you are looking for.
Regards,
Vladimir