At the Defrag08 conference, one of the vendors that caught my eye was LiquidPlanner. Debuting this year and receiving good reviews, LiquidPlanner provides on-line project management software. Their key discriminator is that the tool allows teams to manage change and uncertainty. As a user of Microsoft Project, one of the problems that often occurred is the schedule is carefully crafted, published and then rarely looked at or updated again.
Most project managers haven’t mastered project estimation. Therefore, there isn’t the ability to set a range of dates that a task may be completed in. LiquidPlanner’s ability to provide ranged vs. single-point estimate plus its ability to provide probabilistic scheduling help to ensure the project is estimated more accurately and will be updated on a regular basis.
Other team functions built in are wiki’s, document sharing, social project networking, and task tracking make this a great team tool for distributed groups. Personalized dashboards provide a quick way to visualize your tasks/tools.
Pricing is free for the first 3 team members. After that it is $35/month or $300/yr.
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