What are Projects in Projectal?

Modified on Sat, 8 Oct, 2022 at 6:06 PM

Projects are collection of tasks you you want to complete in an an organized manner.  Using Projectal, you can budget your projects, plan your projects, resource your projects, schedule your projects, track your projects and generate reports on all aspects of your projects.


You can add as many projects as you like into Projectal.  


Projects are linked to customers.  If you wish to complete an internal project at your company using Projectal, then you can easily make your company the customer for projects.


You can associate companies to projects - including your company.  The companies associated to a  project define the available staff pool for the project.  For example, your company may be working on a project and you may also outsource work to another company.  So you would associate your company and the outsourced company to the project.


You can enter the official start dates and end dates of your projects, if they are know to your projects.  Projectal will alert you when tasks are running early or late.


If your projects have fixed (or awarded) budgets, then you can enter them into Projectal so you can monitor and compare in real time these fixed costs with the estimated costs and the actual costs for the project.


Project Dashboards

Each project in Projectal has its own project dashboard.  Project dashboards let you see all the key metrics of your project at a glance.  You can customize your project dashboard and add extra widgets to it.


Tasks Screen

Each project in Projectal has its own Tasks screen.  Tasks screens let you see all your tasks in a spreadsheet-like table.  You can search for tasks, hide/show data points that you are interested in and edit task information directly in the Tasks screen.  


Gantt Charts

Each project in Projectal has its own Gantt chart.  Gantt charts let you see your tasks in a visual timeline and provides clarity over the order of tasks to completed and any dependencies on other tasks.  Gantt charts in Projectal are fully interactive and customizable.  


Staff Usage

Each project in Projectal has its own Staff Usage screen for full crew planning and staff resource planning.  The Staff Usage screen lets you see and organize how your staff (or crew) are assigned to tasks on a project.  It lartes you to over allocations and under allocations.  It tells you head count (FTE) requirements.  You can group or break down your staff by company, location, department, project, skill and more.   


Kanban Boards

Each project in Projectal has its own Kanban board.  This provides a more visual way to see your tasks and move them through their various typical stages from backlog, ready, in progress to completion.  You can create your own Kanban stages for your projects and customize your Kanban board to see the information you need to know.



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