Features

Use Project KickStart™ Pro to generate ideas, solve problems and increase efficiency

Generate Ideas

Project KickStart helps you generate ideas by asking the right questions, giving guidance where needed, and allowing you to quickly create a smart, efficient, and organized plan, complete with phases, goals, obstacles and solutions.

• Six-step wizard quickly guides you through creating your plan
• Streamlined, question and answer process, will give you a deeper understanding of your project’s obstacles, risks, and solutions, while simultaneously helping you to create clearly defined goals
• Get up and running quickly with FREE sample projects that include goals, phases, tasks, obstacles and more

 

Solving problems

Project KickStart Pro helps you identify problems, potential solutions, and provides you with a streamlined, organized framework where the entire project plan and schedule can update automatically based on new tasks, revised dates or other changes.

• Professional Gantt charts lets you set dependencies between tasks so date changes automatically update entire project plan
• Never let a slip in dates go unnoticed or not accounted for
• Change task parameters to perform simple 'What If' scenarios
• Increase team collaboration and communication
• Exports data to Microsoft Project, Outlook, Word, and Excel and instantly generates PowerPoint presentations of your project
• Exports data to MindJet MindManager, WBS Chart, ACT!

 

Increase Efficiency

Project KickStart Pro helps you increase efficiency in concrete ways. Efficiency in project management is about being organized, detail oriented, having a good understanding of your resources, tracking your budget and % done, among other aspects. Above all, Project KickStart helps you save time, money, and be more productive.

• Organizes your thoughts quickly with easy user interface
• Straight forward task management and progress tracking keeps your project optimized for more efficient, successful projects
• Keep project on track with basic budgeting, cost tracking, milestones, and % done
• Use Gantt chart to take concrete steps toward keeping your project on time-or better yet-ahead of schedule
• Stay organized with centralized document repository
• Optimize resource management and accountability with clear roles and responsibilities

 

A picture is worth a thousand words! A dynamic picture is priceless!

Gantt charts are a visual display of your project schedule. Time duration is represented by bars and milestones. Easily customize your chart by using colour and other scheduling options. We also provide you with free Gantt chart software templates and examples.

• Task links (dependencies) can be set up automatically based on user preference
• You can link (or unlink) multiple tasks
• You can adjust predecessors and successors as well as lead time for the most accurate schedule
• Project calendar sets non-working days or set all days to working days in preferences
• Add colour to task bars to display additional resource or schedule information
• Track Costs and Percent Done
• Print 3 styles of Gantt charts and customize report format
• Export data to Microsoft Office Suite, MindManager, ACT!
• Save your Gantt chart as an image file for collaboration
• Export to PowerPoint or Microsoft Project
  

 

Dependencies you can depend on

Project KickStart Pro, with dependencies in the Gantt chart, is a sophisticated scheduling and project management tool is designed to make complex project scheduling easy and straightforward.

Use dependencies to handle scheduling demands, delays, and surprises without modifying every task in your project. Dependencies let you make adjustments as events change, giving you a more robust schedule and the opportunity to conduct what-if analysis.

Suppose you are managing a corporate brochure printing project involving several marketing copywriters and dozens of tasks. One of your first tasks is to meet with the corporate marketing department and copywriters but unbeknownst to you they have a team offsite the day you scheduled the meeting, so the meeting gets pushed by two days. Using dependencies, you can delay the meeting in a couple of clicks, and Project KickStart Pro automatically updates the schedule for the remaining tasks and instantly makes your project reflect the latest reality.

Although dependencies meet your advanced scheduling needs, the Project KickStart Pro approach to dependencies keeps them as simple as possible. When you display the Gantt chart the first time, all tasks are pre-linked, allowing you to adjust durations, schedules of individual tasks, and time between tasks, which is called Lead Time in Project KickStart Pro.

Why keep information locked in one program? Share it!

Project KickStart exports directly to a variety of programs:  PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Word, Microsoft Project, ACT!, WBS Chart, and MindManager. Interoperability with other software make the possibilities limitless.