Open Workbench is an open source Windows-based desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality and is free to distribute throughout the enterprise. When users need to move beyond desktop scheduling to a workgroup, division or enterprise-wide solution, they can upgrade to CA's Clarity system, a project and portfolio management system that offers bidirectional integration with Open Workbench.
Project Planning
*Define projects and create associated work breakdown structures with activities, phases, tasks and Milestones
*Create dependencies as finish-start, start-start, finish-finish or start-finish
*Create subprojects and link them to master projects
*Create and manage inter-project dependencies
*Associate guidelines with tasks
*Manage advanced task properties such as fixed duration, dependency lag, imposed start/end dates and charge codes
*Create, edit and delete calendars
Project Scheduling
*Schedule tasks manually or automatically using Auto Schedule
*Automatically schedule tasks forwards or backwards (the latter allowing tasks to be started as late as possible) and with or without resource constraints
*Schedule across linked master and subprojects
*Schedule to general or individualized calendars
Resource Management
*Define resources as people, Equipment, materials or expense
*Assign resources to tasks
*Configure resources on tasks with uniform, fixed, Contour, front or back loading
Project Review
*Track status, percent complete and estimates to complete
*View Gantt charts (both detail and roll-up), PERT charts and the critical path
*Conduct earned value analysis
*Define, compare and reset project baseline settings
*Customize project views including column layouts, filters, sorts and rule-based formatting
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