Manage your project success
More often than not, managing a project successfully requires more than just hitting a target date. It requires the ability for you to manage all aspects of the project—the resources, the budgets, the tasks, and the deadlines—and make key decisions along the way. Project X let’s you define what the measure for success is for your project and helps you make sure you stay on target regardless of what curve may be thrown your way.

Identify Your Tasks Visually
Project X incorporates three, color-coded task types to help you manage your project more efficiently. The Basic Task (yellow) is for any particular task that is part of your project for example drafting a document or reviewing a document.

A Subproject (blue) helps you group together a set of tasks that are similar in nature. For example, a pool builder needs to get sign-off from the customer on the design before proceeding in the project. The process of the “Customer Signoff” can be a subproject of the entire job and include tasks such as interviewing the customer needs, taking a survey of the property, having an architect draw a plan to scale, and then a few rounds of modifications and approvals with the homeowner.

A Milestone (red) is a significant point in time in your project. A few examples of milestones in the pool building scenario would be things such as executing the contract, obtaining a permit, and passing each county-required inspections. These events are significant milestones since no further progress can be made until the actions have been satisfactorily met and helps project managers assess the overall progress of the project.

These visual cues allow you to see at a glance when you are reaching critical junctures in your project, whether entire subcomponents of your project are on time, and even examine your projects on the most detailed level for clear insight.

Control All Your Tasks Easily
The Task Inspector is your task control center and gives you instant access to all information pertaining to a task from the Network, Outline, or Timeline views by simply by clicking the blue Inspector button. No more digging around for detailed information—in one convenient location, you have all the task-related information you need including dates, resources, specs, documents, links, cost, activity and more. For those that prefer to use the Network view for graphical project information, the Task Inspector gives you instant access to all task information with one click and stays out of the way when not needed. Plus, rollover buttons, menus, and controls become visible only when the cursor is placed over a task for editing; leaving you with an uncluttered workspace.

Make Decisions with Ease
In a perfect world, we would all have unlimited resources, budgets, and time…but it just isn’t the case. Sometimes project management decisions are hard to make and you are pressed to make critical recommendations as to how to proceed. Project X helps you with this process by letting you set goals and constraints in your project document to help you guide your decision-making. For example, if you need to have something completed by a certain date—like delivering a product, then the constraint for this particular project is time because you can’t move the deadline—this helps you focus on managing the resources and budget and adjusting each as appropriate in order to meet the deadline.

So far, you have managed to enter all of the tasks associated with your big project—you are well on your way. But now that you have your project tasks entered, how will you keep everything updated?

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