How should the ultimate project management tool work?

This is the question we asked people just like you: project managers, carpenters, lawyers, software designers, automotive managers, military personnel, pharmaceutical industry consultants, teachers and profit and non-profit corporate executives.

Here's what you said...

First there were many opinions about existing products.

You don't like Microsoft Project 2003™ (too complicated), but love Microsoft Excel™ (nice, fast data entry and love the calculations).

You love MindManager X5 (very intuitive), but not it's Project synchronization features (confusing).

You want a tool that speaks about projects on your own terms ("tasks" might be called "issues", "tracks", or "products")

You want the tool to be able to calculate the real costs of a project, but it's got to be simple enough that you don't spend all your time entering data that you have to verify.

It must have customizable reporting.

And our customers said...

We turned to our JCVGantt Version 1.0 users in hundreds of companies, schools and governments around the world...

They said it was missing things they absolutely needed: resource calendaring, critical path, tiled printing, and baselining as one said "....nice tool for scheduling, but it doesn't help me with costing"

Result: A new way to plan projects

The amazing result is JCVGantt Pro, a new way of planning a project that when used with MindManager X5 (or X5 Pro) becomes the most innovative project costing system you've ever used.

Step 1: Brainstorm
Step 2: Schedule
Step 3: Assign Resource Costs
Step 4: Printout the reports

A tool that CEOs, project managers, carpenters, astronauts, pilots, lawyers, software architects, generals, governments.... can trust to get the job done! 

Step 1: Brainstorm

Brainstorm your tasks in MindManager X5 or X5 Pro, or... use the built-in "task tree" that uses the same key-strokes you've learned to use in X5.

Step 2: Schedule

Slide and stretch the Gantt bars with your mouse to fit your schedule. Assign dependencies between tasks, or type the date information into the "Excel-like" spreadsheet. In all cases, weekends, holidays and non-working days are automatically skipped and don't show up in your cost reports.

Step 3: Assign Resource Cost

Type in your resource names and you can assign fixed or variable costs with each. Use fixed costs for items like "materials", and variable costs for things like "consulting hours"....then enter the actual cost of each resource.

Step 4: Print out the reports

Printout a wall-sized Gantt Chart, or the instantly calculated "Total Cost Report".

If you get creative, you can quickly create your own invoices, quotations, risk analysis, or budget deviation reports using the built-in spreadsheets. While you're at it, you'll find the ability to create your own project calculations that calculate instantly allows you to think about project data in ways you've never ever thought of before. Be creative!

Note: Send us your favorite reports in Excel XLS format and we'll post them for other users to share.

• Trust it to do the job  - Enthusiastic users include NASA, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, Dow, Mindjet, Sony, Canon, Hitachi, Fujitsu, MIT, Space and Missile Command, Canadian Space Agency.
   
• Save time - Don't worry about project planning, simply brainstorm all the tasks that come to mind using MindManager X5 Pro (optional) and JCVGantt will sketch out the Gantt project as you go from your notes.
  
  
   
• Show me the money $ - Add your resource costs, and stretch any Gantt chart bar and watch your resource costs calculate instantly...in the Gantt!
  
  
• Rapido! Fast! Vite! Enter data rapidly with "Excel-like" grids. The same date gets synched into MindManager as you type!
  
  
   
• Customize the reports - Produce project quotations that you can customize yourself with a built-in "Excel-like" spreadsheet. You can even Export and Import your reports from Excel!

• Never miss the "off-days" - Intelligent dependency calculations plan around non-working days: holidays, weekends, sickdays.
  
   
   
• Printout Wall-sized Gantt Charts - decorate your office with Gantt charts that printout as large as you like!
  
  
   
• Spot budgetary problems - before they turn into BIG problems with "baseline snapshots" from which you can create your own "risk" analysis formulas.
  
  
   
• Instantly spot the "critical path"  - it's big, it's red.
  
  
  
   
• Store your own information - Custom user-defined fields are stored in your mindmap..with drop-down combo boxes to speed entry.
  
  
   
• Customize it to fit your company's terminology - User-name-able  fields allows you to issue tracking, project tracking, ISO-900x quality control, etc...
  
  
   
• Include JCVGantt Pro into your companies overall enterprise plan  - XML file structures your IT department can support from legacy systems
   

• Get it for free? Maybe.

  JCVGantt Pro™ is available as a free upgrade to all licensees of JCVGantt for MindManager 1.0!

  Also, our 1 year upgrade policy provides all JCVGantt users upgrades to new features the instant they appear guaranteed for 1 year from the date of purchase