Successful project management begins even before detailed project planning: With the project preparation functions in the Projektron BCS project management software, you create the ideal framework and starting conditions for the success of your project. With system-supported target definitions, stakeholder analyses and environment considerations, you start ideally equipped.

• Goal definition: Define and edit project goals, sub-goals and sub-objectives and present them in a project goal graphic.
• Environment analysis: Analyze your project environment and identify all environmental factors that can influence the course of the project, be it parallel projects, relationships with conflict potential or synergy effects.
• Stakeholders: Identify and record stakeholders for your project and evaluate their influence and support potential in the stakeholder analysis.
• Opportunity and risk analysis: Counter identified risks by defining effective countermeasures and exploit opportunities by planning suitable support measures.
• Significance: Define the strategic importance of a project and weight values for the areas of innovation, image, market potential, customer requirement and profitability, shown in the radar chart.
• Project application wizard: Prepare the application for your project in a professional manner.
• Project applications: Review project applications clearly, compare and decide based on data which project applications will be approved.
• Report generation: Create a project application report in no time, summarizing all the necessary information for preparing your project in one document.

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Create and plan your projects in Projektron BCS according to different project planning models (top-down, bottom-up or counter-intuitive) and project management methods (PRINCE2, IPMA, Hermes, AutomotiveSPICE, PMI).

• Project planning wizard: Plan your project in ten steps, through which the Projektron BCS project planning wizard guides you.
• Project templates: create and use project templates from projects, sub-projects and project structure elements such as work packages, tasks and milestones to create your work breakdown structure.
• Network: Place structure items in the appropriate dependency relationship and structure your project as deeply as you like with tasks, checklists, and workflows to create a detailed schedule.
• Schedule: Manually plan the schedule of your project and project phases directly in the dynamic Gantt chart, in terms of on-time scheduling based on the duration of tasks and dependencies between project structure elements, or in terms of resource-driven scheduling based on optimal utilization of your project team.
• Team planning: Staff your project team based on skills with the appropriate employees at optimal resource utilization.
• Multi-level cost planning: Based on your structure and effort plan, you create well-founded calculations at an early stage, which you can use for target/actual comparisons later in the project.
• Baseline comparison: Save different planning statuses of your work breakdown structures, schedules, structure plans, team plans, effort plans, and non-personnel cost plans as baselines to compare them with each other.

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Organize project work efficiently and react proactively to changes: With a wide range of tools for project communication, project documentation and project adaptation, our project management software Projektron BCS supports you.

• Project progress: Always keep track of the processing status of each individual task thanks to clear displays, such as in the Kanban board, the project overview or the Gantt chart, track the progress of the project in detail and see which employee is currently working on which task.
• Project execution: If desired, the BCS Assistant supports you in implementing your project on schedule and in compliance with planned efforts.
• Project calendar: You can use your project calendar to view subproject goals or milestones and easily create meeting dates and appointments.
• Change requests: Use the ticket system in Projektron BCS to control, document and track approval procedures for changes in project planning.
• Project-related time recording: The members of your project teams book their working hours directly to the tasks to which they are assigned in the project. The effort data is directly available for ongoing project controlling and invoicing.
• Staff scheduling: As a project manager, prioritize tasks and schedule your staff accordingly with just a few clicks.
• Project documentation: In the progress log in BCS, you centrally record all relevant information in chronological order.
• Quality assurance: use the checklists and automated workflows to provide your project team with clear guidelines for the professional execution of your projects.
• Project communication: in addition to communication within the project team, BCS also supports communication with stakeholders and external project participants with a wide range of options.

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Make optimal use of your resources: With central employee management, vacation management, workload analyses as well as planning support, Projektron BCS creates synergies and provides everything you need for your resource planning and management with comprehensive and clear planning tools.

• Workload planning: Determine who should staff your project team with just a few clicks. Thanks to BCS, you can immediately see which employee is available on which day and for how long, and who has the necessary skills. Existing scheduling conflicts can be viewed and resolved centrally.
• Flexible organizational structures: Whether line organization or matrix organization - in Projektron BCS, you map the organizational form of your company and your project organization holistically and clearly in an organizational chart. Define department and project-independent groups of people and assign individuals or groups of people to your project.
• Workload forecasting: Forecast the workload of your employees based on all relevant factors such as project assignments, working hours, basic loads, vacations and absences due to illness.
• Utilization analysis: In the resource preview in Projektron BCS, you can easily recognize the utilization level of an employee thanks to colored bar charts and also keep an eye on line activities in resource planning. In this way, you can also easily manage cross-project capacity planning.
• Utilization mountains: In the graphical analysis of capacity utilization, you can immediately recognize overloads and underloads of individual employees, teams and departments.
• Material resources: Plan material resources, which you manage centrally in the asset management module of Projektron BCS, with just a few clicks.

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Are the projects running as planned? In project controlling you receive all important evaluations of your project key figures, for example in the total cost diagram or in the analysis of material costs and personnel costs in the project. On the basis of effort recording, you monitor the progress of the project and receive a reliable forecast of the key performance indicators. Thanks to material cost recording and external allocation rates, you have an overview of the entire project budget.

• Project overview: As a project controller, get all project deadlines, tasks and important key figures of the project such as total costs incurred, material costs and efforts always in view thanks to the simple tachometer display. You can obtain more detailed information with just one click in the cost diagram or in the effort diagram.
• Monitor project progress: With the milestone trend analysis, you can identify schedule deviations and make well-founded forecasts for stakeholders, management or clients.
• Earned value analysis: Determine the actual project progress and make forecasts about the expected completion date and effort at the end of the project.
• Analysis of project efforts and project costs: Evaluate the commissioned, planned and incurred efforts or costs for the entire project or subordinate project structure elements.
• Analysis of project bookings: View the bookings of individual employees and their remaining effort estimates.
• Project controlling reports: Generate individual project reports in BCS - overview, effort and cost reports according to your needs.

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Focus on the right projects: With resource planning for project groups and multi-project controlling functions, Projektron BCS provides you with the basis for strategic and operational multi-project management.

• Multi-project board: View all projects and their status, priority, project category and most important KPIs in a compact Kanban overview.
• Multi-project controlling: Cross-project evaluations show you not only planned and actual values, but also residual efforts estimated by your project streetcars. In the graphical multi-project evaluation, you immediately recognize where action is required.
• Project groups and project categories: Combine multiple projects into project groups or under different project categories for easier comparison, management and evaluation.
• Resource planning for project groups: As a multi-project manager, set a resource budget at the project group level.
• Cross-project milestones and milestone history

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Generate and compare project proposals from project ideas with the lean portfolio management of Projektron BCS project management software.

• Create and check project ideas: Your employees simply enter project ideas in Projektron BCS. The person responsible receives a suitable checklist for checking.
• Compare project proposals: Evaluate applications according to factors of strategic importance, such as image, innovation, customer requirement, profitability and market potential.
• Assemble project portfolio: Easily add and score projects to portfolios to deliver the right projects at the right time.
• Compare projects: Easily compare the projects in your portfolios with BCS based on their Return of Investment (ROI), Net Present Value (NPV) or Internal Rate of Return (IRR). In the portfolio diagram, you can see at a glance the strategic importance of the projects in your portfolio.

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