Your Mac project management software for organizing, tracking, and reporting all your project goals. Ideal for both new and experienced Mac project managers, FastTrack Schedule 9 helps you manage your small to mid-size projects easily and effectively.

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Views to Suit You

Schedule. Calendar. Resource. Impress clients and colleagues with eye-catching schedules and calendars that clearly convey project goals and status.

Great for Small Biz

See why Mac|Life, Small Business Technology Magazine, Macworld, My Mac and others say that FastTrack Schedule is just right for Mac project management and smart-sized businesses. Read more >>

Leopard-ready for all your projects needs

FastTrack Schedule 9.2 is compatible with Leopard, Apple’s elegant new version of Mac OS X.
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FastTrack Schedule 9, for the project planner in us all.
FastTrack Schedule will help you and your team:
  • Quickly and simply plan your projects
  • Complete projects on time and on budget
  • Present project goals in eye-catching schedules
  • Identify and avoid potential scheduling conflicts
  • Improve strategic planning
  • Effectively track project performance
  • Enhance collaboration and communication
  • Demonstrate the time/cost impact of schedule changes

Works better on a Mac. New features that make the most of OS X.
Universal through and through
FastTrack Schedule 9 is optimized for Intel-based Macs and runs natively on both the Intel and PowerPC-based Macs. Mac users can even collaborate with team members on the other platform running the compatible Windows version of FastTrack Schedule.


Direct export to iCal®
Export specific tasks or entire projects from FastTrack Schedule 9 to your favorite Mac organizer, iCal. When publishing directly to iCal, project events can be easily added to any of your current calendars or to a new calendar.


Publish directly to .Mac
Make it easy for team members and clients to view project plans by publishing projects as iCalendar (.ics) files directly to your .Mac account. Sharing plans within .Mac is an easy way to communicate key project events through a browser to others who may not be familiar with Gantt charts or who don’t use FastTrack Schedule.


Support for Spotlight and Mac OS X Services
Use Spotlight to pinpoint important project details contained within your FastTrack Schedule files. Scan file-specific metadata to locate the “who, what, and when” of your projects and control sensitive information with four levels of privacy settings.


 

Straightforward and simple for first-time project managers

Nearly everyone takes on a project management role at some point or another in their daily, professional, or even personal lives. For the project management newcomer, having an easy to learn, easy to use tool to plan projects is key. FastTrack Schedule 9 simplifies project planning and helps a first-time project manager be a more effective project manager.

Get up and running quickly
Choose from over 30 example files and QuickStart templates or simply click-and-drag to enter and organize tasks, deadlines, and assignments. FastTrack Schedule 9 also creates great looking project schedules from data within spreadsheets, organizers, databases, and other project management programs. And if you need a helping hand learning FastTrack Schedule, you can rely on extensive online help topics, step-by-step tutorials, and weekly e-Training classes.

Make the break from Excel®
Many first-time project managers start out using spreadsheets to plan projects. Excel is a great tool, but it’s not designed for managing projects. FastTrack Schedule 9 has project-focused features that make it easy to plan and track projects including a built-in outliner for organizing and summarizing tasks, Gantt chart timelines that clearly illustrate task dates and durations, linking tools to set dependencies, monthly calendars, and more.


Turn brainstorms into action plans
FastTrack Schedule's integration with Mindjet® MindManager®, the premier mind mapping software, provides an ideal concept to completion workflow for planning and executing project initiatives. Simply open a MindManager map in FastTrack Schedule and set your ideas into motion by viewing plans as Gantt charts, monthly calendars, and resource graphs.

Full-featured, but easy to use for experienced project managers
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’ve found enterprise-level programs like Microsoft Project to be overloaded with features you don't need and too complicated to use—try FastTrack Schedule 9. It's intuitive, easy to use, and easy to customize while still providing experienced project managers with a complete set of tools to effectively track and manage projects through to completion.

Make the switch from Microsoft Project®
File, Open. It’s that easy for Mac users to get project data out of Microsoft Project MPP and MPT files. FastTrack Schedule 9 also opens XML and MPX files, and provides easy export to XML and MPX when you need to send project details from FastTrack Schedule 9 to a Microsoft Project user. Learn more about exchanging data with Microsoft Project and download a free guide.


Consolidate projects into a master schedule
Stay focused on the big picture while you monitor the progress of project teams. Consolidate separate FastTrack Schedule files into a single master file to view multiple projects or a multi-phased project. Easily merge Mac or Windows FastTrack Schedule files to report overall project status or drill-down into distinct project phases. And 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.


Maximize your resources
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.

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