Introduction
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.. index:: Introduction

Rillsoft Project is a high-performance software tool for project
management, assisting you in project scheduling, capacity planning
and management resource planning.

Rillsoft Project provides the following functions for all project stages


-  **Project scheduling and management resource planning**

   -  scheduling personnel resources in the form of:
   
      - roles,
      - teams,
      - employees.
	   
   -  flexibly recording of roles by different levels of qualification
      with graded cost rates.
   -  defining teams by:
   
      - capacity and costs per hour,
      - assigned employees.
	   
   -  recording employees by
   
      - assignation to several teams,
      - simultaneous assignation to several roles with different
        qualifications, costs and stages of productivity,
      - independent determination of non-working days (holidays,
        sickness).
	
   -  evaluation of available capacity and usage of roles and employees at any time.	
   -  assigning employees on the basis of their roles and qualifications
      by means of an assistant program.
   -  entering the work result of activities (pit 180 m3).
   -  displaying the activity effort by entering employee days (such as
      5 ED).
   -  describing and administering the required materials and machines.
   -  applying several calendar for the individual resources and a
      flexible scheduling.
   -  multiproject planning and project portfolio.
   -  evaluating excess and shortfall of personnel resources (supply
      minus demand = contingency).
   -  using subprojects and WBS codes to structure the project.
   -  viewing the project details from different perspectives.
  

-  **Project controlling and project execution analysis**

   -  updating the project by recording the completion percentage
      of the activities.
   -  providing a variance analysis which matches the parameters, such
      as time, costs and resource utilization, of the target to those of
      actual.
   -  quickly detecting deviances from actual by means of a
      progress line and a baseline.
   -  controlling the project financing.

-  **Project management**

   conciliating the actual with the target

   -  assigning or reassigning employees to and from activities in the
      ongoing project.
   -  assigning personnel to critical activities, in order to speed up
      execution.

   conciliating the target with the actual

   -  separating of completed activities from waiting activities.
   -  shifting of delayed activities to the cutoff date.
   -  optimising of resource utilization of not yet completed project activities.