Manage your business projects
Open Workbench is a useful business productivity tool that enables business owners to properly keep track and manage their projects. This includes scheduling tasks and monitoring the progress of each one. Having this productivity software makes it easier for you to oversee how your projects, especially complex ones, are faring step by step.
Work on your information
Of course, in order for Open Workbench to help you with project monitoring, you will have to manually input all the necessary data and information about the task. Upon launching the software, users can immediately fill out everything that Open Workbench will be asking for. You will see, after giving the interface a once over, that it has conveniently divided the tasks into steps: planning, executing, and controlling. The Gant chart, a bar chart that is widely used and known for illustrating project schedules, is also made accessible under the management area, which is on the side panel of your window.
The Gant chart will show you all relevant information such as project budget, resources, and task schedule, all of which can be edited if needed. There are also other tools for project management available such as the CPM Network, which shows the start and end dates of certain tasks and projects, and the Phase Level Gantt which includes not only the dates but as well as the progression of the project until it was finally done. A bunch of other helpful tools is up for exploration.
Stay updated and organized
You may notice that Open Workbench looks outdated and very much an old-looking software, but do not worry because it is intuitive and gets the job done. You’d need a moment to explore the interface and randomly click on its features to familiarize yourself with Open Workbench’s functions, but once you have familiarized yourself with them, everything’s smooth-sailing from there.
Open Workbench is a robust, mature tool for project scheduling and management. It conforms to and supports the underlying ideals of project management while presenting information in a way that is intuitive and easy to learn. Tens of thousands of project managers around the world use Open Workbench to plan and execute complex projects.
All projects proceed through a series of tasks (or stages) during their lifecycle. By using Open Workbench, these critical tasks or stages become more manageable, making projects more likely to succeed. Open Workbench enables project managers to create work breakdown structures (WBS) with tasks and milestones, set baselines, schedule project plans with dependencies, assign resources to tasks, schedule work on tasks over a period of time, adjust the schedule as actual work is recorded, link master and subprojects and schedule resources across them, and conduct earned value analysis.
Once the project plan is created, project managers can schedule tasks with assigned resources for completion. For large projects, scheduling can be an intricate process that balances task relationships, resource availability, and task duration. The powerful Auto Schedule feature in Open Workbench is designed to handle just this type of complexity. With the click of a button, the Auto Schedule feature uses an internal set of rules to create a schedule that takes into account task constraints, dependencies, priorities and resource constraints—automatically generating the best method for project completion. When the plan is approved, the project manager can create a baseline, which gives a snapshot of the project and allows revisions to be compared against the original plan.
The mission of Open Workbench is to develop a world class, open source application with the world’s most robust project scheduling functionality. Open Workbench wants to ensure that project management professionals will continue to have a powerful choice to manage their most complex workplan, task and resource requirements.
