Timemaster Project Management Module
Timemaster Project Management frees your senior professional staff from administrative tasks so they can spend more of their working time on project and service delivery and allows them to react pro-actively to avoid project overruns.
- Split complex projects into more manageable tasks
- Allocate fee profiles and payment schedules
- Link tasks together and schedule tasks for project planning
- Early warnings of project overspend or overruns
- Summarise child tasks at summary levels
- Personalised 'to do' lists
- Invoice at summary level and plan at detail level or vice-versa
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Timemaster Project Management Supports
Task Structure Views screenshot
- Complex multi-discipline (service) and parent-child task structures fully supported:
- Project, Service & Task
- Project, Service, Task & Activity
- A mix of percentage fees, fixed fees, scale fees, time-charges and non-chargeable tasks on the same project
- Invoicing by percentage completion, time-booked, on completion or by payment schedule
- Top down project costing
- Automatic calculation of percentage and scale fees taking into account the fluctuation of project works cost
- Variable percentage profit margins for each task to front or rear load project fees
- The monitoring of actual vs. target costs and hours
- Notification through message board to the project manager when task:
- is due to finish
- exceeds 80%, 85%, 90%, 95% or 100% of target cost
- Full visibility of the future project pipeline
- A built-in-Gantt charting tool for project planning
Setup your project tasks to manage your workload
Gantt Chart screenshot
- Each task will have a fee, target cost, target hours, a start time and end date against each task and will be undertaken by a team of people
- Restrict the staff allowed to book time to each task
- Change and individual's hourly rate
- Export task profit and loss to MS Excel
- Monitor burn rates with actual cost and hours
Plan your projects using the built-in Gantt chart tool or the bi-directional interface with MS Project
- Drag 'n' drop project Gantt charting embedded within Timemaster
- Single or multi-discipline Gantt charts
- Bi-directional external interface with MS Project (all versions supported)
- Create standard durations and dependencies
- Hierachy rules dictate whether service dates are constrained by project dates
- Create baselines for performance reporting
View workloads and project pipelines graphically
Workload screenshot
- MS Excel cash flow and work load reports
- Model different 'what-if' scenarios
- Use project schedules to predict income by client, department or project leader
- Project costing reports
- Set task status to report on firm, probable and possible work
- Summary and drill-down profit and loss reports
- Predicted income and profitability reports
- Performance indicator reports from baselines