RationalPlan Multi Project is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets and analyzing workload.

Whether your applications are in the area of construction, engineering, services & consulting, software development or any other business field, RationalPlan can help you to complete your projects on time and within budget.

You can opt in for a Multi Project version if you have projects that are related, that is, certain tasks from one project depend on other tasks from the other projects.

Moreover, you should settle for this application if you have resources that are working on multiple projects.

Key reasons for using RationalPlan Multi Project:
· Manage your company's projects as a multiproject tree structure and share resources between them
· Provides a clean way to break down your project, build schedules, allocate resources, and manage budgets
· A step by step project guide walks you through the project management process so you can lay down a project plan immediately
· Get resources and finances under control (realistic cost estimates mechanisms, detailed cash-flow screening down to tasks and resources level)
· "What if" scenarios capability via multiple undo/redo levels allows you to make changes and safely get back
· Track project evolution in terms of completion, time and costs
· Brings project's critical issues to your attention (overallocated resources, critical paths with configurable slack from which activities become critical)

Here are some key features of "RationalPlan Multi Project":

Project Planning:
· Associate general project information (name, notes, links, assumptions, constraints, risks)
· Create, edit and delete calendars
· Build work breakdown structure
· Create intra/interproject dependencies between tasks, set lead/lag time
· Manage task properties such as constraints, fixed cost

Company Project Portfolio:
· Define your company's projects as a tree structure (allows "nested projects")
· Analyze all your projects' data with Project Portfolio view

Resource Management:
· Define company-wide resources - human/equipment and material - shared between projects
· Define specific working time for each human resource
· Assign resources to tasks
· View timephased information about resources' work and cost
· View overallocated resources and resources that work overtime

Project Tracking:
· View current project's critical tasks depending on a customizable slack
· Mark the task progress by changing the task completion value (%complete or %work complete)
· View timephased information about tasks' work and cost

Miscellaneous:
· Easy to use Gantt Graph
· Project Guide assists you step-by-step with easy to understand explanations
· Icon Bar with specific commands for every view
· Export to Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel
· Printable reports (to printer or to file - pdf format)
· Strong Print Preview interface
· No annoying dialog windows unless strictly necessary
· Cross-platform (work on all major operating systems starting with Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Linux and all other Java enabled platforms)

Requirements:

· Java Runtime Environment 1.5

Limitations:

· Limits your projects to no more than 20 tasks

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Email integration with Yahoo, Hotmail, Live
· Added quantity column in assignment table
· Remember last used time scale
· Added predecessors end date and successors start date columns
· Bug fixes