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The Right Tool for the Job
To be the most effective, a project manager should use a tool that best matches their project management skills and needs. What's right for someone who manages projects eight hours a day is probably the wrong tool for an occasional project manager or for someone who needs to quickly create a great looking schedule for a meeting or presentation.
If you find your current project management software to be overloaded with features you don't use or need, too rigid, and complicated to learn and use—try FastTrack Schedule 9. FastTrack Schedule 9 is intuitive, easy to use, highly customizable, and it provides experienced project managers with a complete set of tools to accurately track and manage projects through to completion.
Easy Data Exchange with Microsoft Project®
Project managers accustomed to Microsoft Project® can use FastTrack Schedule 9 with the assurance that project information can easily be exchanged between the two programs. FastTrack Schedule 9 directly opens Microsoft Project MPP, MPT, XML and MPX files, and provides easy export to XML and MPX formats when it’s essential to send data from FastTrack Schedule 9 to a Microsoft Project user.
If you've found Microsoft Project to be cumbersome and generally overkill for your project needs, try FastTrack Schedule. FastTrack Schedule is straightforward, easy to learn and use, highly customizable, and about half the price of Microsoft Project. And with compatible Windows and Mac versions, FastTrack Schedule eliminates all barriers for teams collaborating on projects across platforms. Learn more and download a free guide >
Maximize Your Resources
With FastTrack Schedule 9 you can assign and manage resources with pinpoint accuracy. Track usage rates for each resource and optimize workloads by setting individual resource work calendars that account for vacations and variable shifts.
Three separate summary graphs for each resource display percent usage, hourly usage, and the corresponding activity bars to which each resource has been assigned, making it easy to identify under or over allocation and reassign resources to stay within budget and time constraints.
In Control and On Schedule
When priorities shift, budgets fluctuate, and new tasks are squeezed in as deadlines approach, FastTrack Schedule 9 helps ease project flux. Easily set dependencies between tasks and rely on CPM scheduling to stay on track as changes occur. In accordance with Project Management Institute (PMI) best practices, FastTrack Schedule 9 supports the four standard link types (finish-to-start, finish-to-finish, start-to-finish, start-to-start) and eight different constraint types.
Consolidate Projects
Stay focused on the big picture while you monitor the progress of project teams. Consolidate separate FastTrack Schedule 9 files into a single master file to view the progress of team members on multiple projects or a multi-phased project. Use consolidation to report overall project status or drill-down into distinct project phases.
FastTrack Schedule 9's specialized consolidation features ensure that merged projects retain all key project data including resources and assignments as well as file-specific graphic items including bar styles, legends, pictures, and textboxes. Get on-demand updates from subordinate files, individually or all at once. Team members can work in subordinate files while their projects are viewed simultaneously in master files. And consolidation works across platforms, so merged files can originate from either the Windows or Mac versions of FastTrack Schedule 9.
Automate Your Scheduling
With our point-and-click scripting feature, FastSteps™, you can create timesaving macros that automate multi-step procedures. Whether it’s filtering activities and printing weekly reports for each team member or exporting project snapshots to post on a web site, FastSteps will streamline your workflow and save you valuable time. And with full support for VBA® and AppleScript®, you can integrate FastTrack Schedule 9 into customized business solutions that work in tandem with your core suite of applications.
Advanced FastTrack Schedule Classes
For experienced project managers, our live instructor-led "Managing" and "Enhancing" e-Training classes are a quick and easy way to master FastTrack Schedule’s advanced features. Watch, listen, and learn from the convenience of your own desktop as AEC Software trainers step through the best practices for progress tracking, resource management, and project reporting. Learn more about e-Training classes >
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