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Project KickStart 4
is the fastest, easiest, way to plan
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Project
KickStart is an
easy-to-use project management program for everyday work projects. It
includes a project planning wizard and a Gantt chart for project
scheduling.
Project KickStart's planning wizard guides you through 6 steps for
brainstorming and planning your project. The plan automatically
displays in the Gantt chart for scheduling.
"Project
KickStart is a pleasant surprise! I loaded it, tried it, and
within 24 hours was using it in meetings to assist clients in their
preliminary project planning. It's a truly collaborative tool for
that bumpy period of initial project planning... Nice work!"
-Microsoft Project For
Dummies®
Martin Doucette
Schedule your projects using the pop-up calendar and Gantt chart or for
added versatility "hot link" your data into PowerPoint, Excel,
Word, Outlook, Microsoft Project ACT! MindManager and more
"Project
KickStart is to project management what Quicken is to accounting
software; it takes the best that project management software has to
offer and makes it easy to use. If you need more, Project KickStart can
be used in conjunction with a full-fledged project manager."
-Executive Computing
Benefits
- Work with any
size project -- up to 1000 tasks and 100 resources.
- Drag and drop
hints from Libraries of Goals, Phases and Obstacles.
- Multi-line cut
and paste. 10 levels of subtasking
- Gantt chart for
"big picture" scheduling. Includes a Done column and Bump Date
tool.
- Reports Generator
for unlimited reports
- Save As HTML --
post project plans on your Intranet.
- Hot link to
Outlook, Word and Excel -- include project plans in proposals and
business plans.
- Hot link to
Microsoft Project, SureTrak, P3, FastTrack Schedule, Project Scheduler,
Milestones, WBS Chart, PowerPoint, MindManager, ACT! -- great for
novice users.
- FREE technical
support
Project KickStart requires no
project management training to use and comes with free, friendly
telephone support. Best of all, by working through the program's icons
and organizing your project step by step, you'll develop a clear
overview of the project and what it will take to complete it. You
become totally in control -- more efficient, more effective, more
successful.
"Project
KickStart is amazing. You sit down with it and in about 30 minutes, you
can put together a very impressive project plan and schedule. Nobody
believes it's that easy until they use it for the first time. After
that, they're converts."
-- David Little, Program Manager,
Hewlett-Packard Outsourcing Services Group
"So, Project KickStart is for
construction projects, right...?
Well,
that's true enough - from small renovations and single homes to major
civil engineering jobs...
But
that's just the "tip of the iceberg"!
Look
at the different projects that have Project KickStart templates to get
you up and running quickly...
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As you can
see,
Construction is just the "tip of the iceberg!"
Whether you are
a
Business owner, Consultant, Educator, Manager, Professional,
Student...
you'll find many uses for Project KickStart 4
"I often have a dozen consulting projects in various
stages from proposal to completion. Plus 8 of my own sites to manage.
Project KickStart is one of my essential tools - and clients
love tracking our progress!"
- David Jones, Site Build It! Certified Webmaster
System Requirements
- Windows Me /
NT / 2000 / XP / Vista
- 128 MB RAM,
30MB free disk space
- Project
KickStart may be installed on a network
Need More Information?
Getting
Started Tutorials
Project KickStart4 Overview
The Wizard
Assigning Tasks
Gantt and Managing Time
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April 2008
Project KickStart Announces release of
Project KickStart Pro 4
Project KickStart Pro 4 Key Features
Project KickStart Pro 4 provides powerful task dependency
tracking. In a nutshell, the Pro 4 version automatically updates your
entire project timeline to account for any date or timing changes in
related tasks.
You'll come to rely and know the power of a task dependency Gantt chart
the very first time your project changes - and your plan adjusts before
your eyes. Well designed, and well worth your money.
Advanced Gantt Chart
Dependencies | Enhanced Gantt Chart
Functionality | Flexible Project
Options | Import/Exports | Project Reporting | Flexible User Control | Microsoft Vista Compatibility
Dependencies in your Gantt Charts
1. Project KickStart Pro now includes dependencies on the
Gantt chart to make complex project scheduling easy and
straightforward.
2. 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.
3. Although dependencies meet your advanced scheduling needs,
the Project KickStart Pro approach to dependencies keeps them as simple
as possible. Project KickStart Pro does not burden you with complicated
error messages and various types of dependencies. It provides only one
type of dependency, finish-to-start, which is the most common type.
This means you can fine-tune your schedule as soon as you open the
Gantt chart—without having to learn technical terms or advanced project
management techniques.
Enhanced Gantt Charts (with Dependencies)
We heard our customers loud and clear that Gantt Charts
needed more flexibility to mirror the complexity and needs of their
projects:
1. To make scheduling easy and quick, the Gantt chart opens in a
starter schedule for new projects by setting today as the start date
and assigning a one-day duration to each task. This creates a waterfall
or cascade pattern, with one task following the other. To
adjust the schedule to fit your project, you can move task bars around
as well as change their start dates, finish dates, and durations. Also,
you can change the project "start date" to change all the dates in the
project.
2. Phases which contain tasks are represented by summary
bars that "contain" their tasks.
3. You can set % done in a special column,
which display in the the task bars.
4. You can set milestones (the task bar
turns into a diamond-shape) by setting the task duration = 0.
5. You can change the color of task bars for
emphasis.
Flexible Project Options
The Planning Wizard has been streamlined from earlier
versions, with the following added features:
- The Task List view includes cost and % done columns.
- A new Task List toolbar makes adding new
tasks, subtasks and notes clearer.
- A Task Information dialog allows for
easy editing on the Task List and Gantt chart.
Project Reporting
- Print three styles of Gantt chart reports (wall
chart, scale-to-smallest scale, and repeat tasks on every page).
- You can use the Report Wizard to select the data to print
(date range and completed vs uncompleted tasks), see
print previews of the Gantt charts, and specify Headers and
Footers of Gantt reports.
Flexible User Control
- Speed your projects with Undo button and
right mouse enabled.
- Modernized user interface.
- Weekends are shown as non-working days.
- Set holidays or other days as non-working
days.
Improved Imports/Exports
Project KickStart 4's exports (which were called "links" in
Ver 3) have been substantially enhanced, including exports to Microsoft
Office 2007:
1. Word export saves in Word doc format
2. Excel export saves in Excel workbook
format
3. Power Point export lets you chose a
design template, provides clearer information, and lets you include the
Gantt chart in your presentation.
4. Outlook Export lets you:
- Export your tasks onto the calendar as a reminder on the
due date
- Improve the Task View in Outlook
- Preserve the original order of your tasks within any project
The Import from Outlook to the People Library has also been
improved:
- On Import, you can see the company name
as well as the person's name, to help you identify which contacts to
import.
- Imports contact information into an address book in the
People Library , showing Company name, phone number, email, etc.
- Also lets you import contacts from the Outlook
Business Contact Manager
5. ACT! 7 and later (2005/2006/2007) are now supported
with an enhanced Export and Import.
- The Export puts tasks on the ACT! calendar as timeless to
avoid clogging up your calendar view
- The Export is smart enough to be able to update your
existing tasks from the same project
- It preserves the task history (task
cleared, notes, etc.) in ACT!.
- It updates the latest task status and
assignments (rather than overwrite all the tasks in ACT!)
- You can create ACT! assignments right from Project
KickStart.
- The Import from ACT! 7 and later to the People Library has
also been improved:
- And it displays the company name as well as the person's
name to help you identify which contacts or users to import.
System Requirements
- Windows Me / NT / 2000 / XP / Vista
- 128 MB RAM, 30MB free disk space
- Project KickStart may be installed on a network.
Upgrade Now and Create Better Plans and Schedules
The Pro upgrade is a must have for all our customers, whether
business, educational, or nonprofit users. You will find Project
KickStart Pro 4 the most powerful version even, still very easy to use.
For existing Project KickStart Standard* customers, you can upgrade for
$150. -- That's a savings of 50% off the price
for new customers.
Gantt Chart Dependencies
In today's working environment, most projects have tasks that depend on
another task in terms of timing, completion, or other factors.
- Advanced fuctionality for automatically updating entire
schedule when tasks are updated.
- Create the most realistic project plans by linking tasks
that are specifically related.
- Spend valuable time on your plan and managing your project,
not on manually updating tasks with new dependency feature.
Gantt Chart Improvements
- Improved Gantt chart with working days calendar.
- Gantt chart displays new Summary bars and project
milestones.
- Added Cost column and Percent done column.
- Color options for Gantt chart bars.
- Three new Gantt chart reports.
- Print custom headers and footers on all reports.
Planning Wizard Improvements
- Updated interface.
- Undo Button through-out the program.
- Added address book look and feel to People Library.
- Attach documents & hyperlinks to tasks.
- Improved editing on the Tasks step
- Print wide variety of Task reports with custom editing.
- Email reports to colleagues from within Project Kickstart
Export Improvements
- Exports to Microsoft Office 2007.
- New export to ACT! 2007.
- Improved export to Outlook .
- Gantt chart image exports to PowerPoint.
System Requirements
- Windows Me / NT / 2000 / XP / Vista
- 128 MB RAM, 30MB free disk space
- Project KickStart may be installed on a network.
*Registered Users of earlier versions have the following
upgrade options:
Upgrade
from Standard 4 to Pro 4: $145 (save $145)
Upgrade
from Version 3 or earlier versions to Pro 4: $170 (save $120)
Upgrade
from Version 3 or earlier versions to Standard 4: $115 (save $75)
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