RationalPlan Single

RationalPlan Single is an advanced Windows application that helps with project planning and tracking, as well as resource management for human/equipment, materials, and costs. It comes with support for WBS, Gantt chart, resource allocation, and cost estimation.

The program impresses with its neat and clean design where you can quickly learn how to define a new project. Short descriptions about the tool’s features are shown in the main window.

RationalPlan Single makes use of a tree-like design where it stores the functions needed for building up a project. It addition, it implements browser-like buttons for helping you jump from one feature to another.

The utility gives you the possibility to add data from various files, namely MPP, XML, MPT, and MPX. You can export projects to your computer so you can edit them in the future and save data to XML and CSV file format.

RationalPlan Single helps you define general information about the project (name, manager, code, estimated start date, project scope, budget).

What’s more, you can add notes to store project-related data, create links to other important documents, set up a calendar that is used by all human resources, add assumption and constraint factors that may affect the project’s performance, as well as identify the risks and create a response plan.

You are given the option to create the project’s work breakdown structure, schedule tasks by defining activities, setting dependencies and estimating durations (dependencies may be generated in Gantt charts), define resources, namely human and equipment, materials, and costs, assign resources to tasks, as well as identify additional costs for tasks.

RationalPlan Single helps you update the schedule with information about tasks’ completion by work or duration. You can also gather and check out details (total, actual, remaining, standard, overtime) about the work and cost of the resources and their assignments.

RationalPlan Single implements an essential feature pack for helping you manage independent projects and represents a reliable alternative to Microsoft Project in case you find the latter one too difficult to digest.

If you are looking for managing multiple projects with shared resources and links between tasks, you can have a look at RationalPlan Multi Project.