New Business Plan

A new business requires careful planning. GamePlan is today’s best online planning and scheduling tool because it’s visual and easy to use.

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Planning

Many people are involved in launching a business, so you need one plan that everyone works from.

With GamePlan, everyone understands the plan because it’s visual. People stay focused on completing their tasks because they know their impact on the business launch.

Benefits of planning

Planning makes you consider all aspects of the new business ahead of time. This is critical when so much is at stake.

Planning also shows the project’s critical path (with red arrows). These are the tasks that will impact the business start date if they run late.

Scheduling

A schedule is mandatory because without a schedule you don’t know when the business will be ready to launch, and people don’t know when they’re needed.

GamePlan creates a resource-leveled project schedule as you visually plan, and shows it in a Gantt chart. This is different to all other products, where you have to create the Gantt chart. In GamePlan, the Gantt chart is created for you.

Benefits of Scheduling

The schedule shows you the earliest possible business launch date, and it shows people when to start and finish their tasks in order to achieve it.

Tracking

Once execution of the plan starts, tracking keeps everything up to date. Tracking is done by marking tasks as Completed on Schedule or entering timesheets.

Benefits of Tracking

Tracking keeps the schedule valid, so that everyone can rely on it. When there’s a delay or when a task takes longer than expected, the downstream schedule automatically updates.

Tracking shows the project status. What is the progress? When will the new business be ready launch? This information and more is always known.

Tracking also gives you a permanent record of plan versus actuals. Analysing this data in a project post-mortem is a valuable learning experience that improves future planning.

Frequently Asked Questions

So GamePlan visually shows my project workflow. Does it do anything else?

Yes, communication is only one of the benefits of the visual workflow. It also serves as an intuitive user interface to a powerful scheduling engine. As you make changes on the Whiteboard, GamePlan updates the project schedule and displays it in GamePlan’s Gantt chart.

Can I move things around on the Whiteboard?

Absolutely! Everyone has their preferred way of laying out their project plan, so GamePlan gives you complete flexibility. You move tasks and groups with a simple drag and drop.

Can I show large projects in GamePlan?

GamePlan’s visual interface is most suitable for small to medium sized projects. However, large projects typically consist of multiple phases. You can move each phase to its own Whiteboard, and all links between phases will be preserved.

Do I need special hardware to use GamePlan?

GamePlan is a cloud-based web application which runs on personal computers and iPad tablets. An internet connection is required.

Which applications can GamePlan import data from?

GamePlan can import data from Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Microsoft Project, and Primavera P6.

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