PMA's New & Innovative Collaborative Planning & Scheduling Tool
NetPoint, created by PMA, is an intuitive Graphical Planning Method™ (GPM)
application that provides an activity network-based
process for simplified collaborative interactive
planning and scheduling. NetPoint better
facilitates the planning process by using
graphical tools and techniques that can be
implemented directly by project stakeholders to
create a consensus plan. NetPoint’s use of the
GPM process gives clarity to all stakeholders,
creating a communication tool not available in
any other CPM software.
GPM emphasizes experienced human judgment and
collaboration in project planning instead of
machine calculations by using new networking
concepts with a mathematical basis for
relational logic. It allows forward and backward
activity definition and sequencing using
stakeholders’ planned dates, while continuously
refreshing floats through its scheduling
algorithm. Further, GPM fundamentally alters CPM
by allowing evolving dates, floats, resource
profiles, and crash-cost curves to impact
activity definition and sequencing. This results
in the creation of an optimized network schedule
in the shortest possible time.
NetPoint introduces the Logic Diagramming
Method™ (LDM), used in tandem, GPM and LDM
provide the simplest possible network-based
process that is efficient, inexpensive and
intuitive. As the evolving schedule nears full
development, the planner and key stakeholders
are able to resolve resource constraints,
accomplish schedule recovery, look for optimal
date scenarios and otherwise quickly rework the
initial draft plan visually without having to
rely on the black box calculations performed by
more traditional scheduling applications.
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News &
Events |
October 18
- 21, 2008
GPM & NetPoint
at the PMI Global Conference - Denver,
CO
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June 29 -
July 2, 2008
GPM & NetPoint
at the AACE
International Annual Meeting - Toronto, ON |
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May 7-9, 2008
GPM & NetPoint at the
COAA Conference - St. Louis, MO
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May 4-7, 2008
PMA Presents GPM & NetPoint at the PMI College of Scheduling Conference -
Chicago, Illinois
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