P2WORLD was called PROJECT CONSORT is a software tool designed to assist project managers and their team to use the "product-based planning" technique defined as part of the PRINCE2 Project Management Method.

Background

The PRINCE2 approach to project management is used by about 30,000 qualified project managers in the UK, but up until now there has been a desperate shortage of easy-to-use software tools to help those managers using the vitally important "Product Based Planning" technique, which is at the heart of what makes PRINCE2 so effective.

Today, P2WORLD from Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd addresses the need to support project managers by automating the key elements of the 'Product Based Planning' technique.

Features

P2WORLD provides support to project managers and their teams with two levels of capability:

• Planning Version: Basic Product Based Planning support
• Project Version: Planning Version plus Project Records (Issues, Risks, etc. and Action Tracking); support for the Project Organisation structure; and custom documents.

P2WORLD has an intuitive "click, drag and type" graphical user interface, which project managers can use to easily create and maintain all the important diagrams and text required in the Planning (PL) process within PRINCE2.
Each P2WORLD project has its own:

• Product Breakdown Structure diagram (PBS);
• Product Descriptions for each product on the PBS;
• Product Flow Diagram for all the products identified on the PBS;
• Project Activities to structure the work needed;
• Project Daily Log;
• Product Description Reports and Project Activity Reports; and
• Stage PBSs and PFDs as the project progresses.

Because these are all consistently merged into a single "PBP container", many potential errors are automatically prevented.
Documents can be exported in various formats, including DHTML, PDF, Excel, Word.

Most importantly, P2WORLD will create project plans for instant import into MS Project!

Benefits of P2WORLD

Reduces the amount of project manager time needed to create and maintain consistent Product Based Plans.

• Provides interactive tracking of all these project elements and the relationships between them, thus reducing time to find information within the plan.
• Includes helpfiles and integrated tutorials to show how to use the toolset.
• Provides example projects to demonstrate an integrated view of a Product Based Plan.
• Provides valuable support in learning and applying the underlying PRINCE2 methods.
• Eases the creation of plans for Microsoft Project.
• Provides a Visual Status mechanism to highlight incomplete products in ongoing projects.

Product Environment

P2WORLD can be installed on windows based PCs running Windows 98 or later, as a standalone application or as a Microsoft Project Add-in.

Price

P2WORLD is available through Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd (www.eh.com.au)

Please visit the following web site for pricing information: Order