Welcome to Deltek Open Plan 8.8
With Deltek Open Plan's project management tools, you can provide your organization with reliable estimates and solutions for long and short-term resource and budget allocations.
Simplify manual processes with rapid data entry, quickly share and update project plan information through Project Portfolio Management (PPM) integration, and ensure projects get the resources they need.
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Open Plan supports the Program Management Office (PMO)
Open Plan has many tools that support the PMO, including the ability to define standard templates for all or part of a project, the ability to validate schedule quality as schedules are built, and to provide guidance along the way to improve scheduling practices.
It provides a robust security model to control who has access to project data and who can make certain types of changes like baseline management, activity deletion, and more.
Open Plan provides shared concurrent access to data when needed and allows projects to be checked out for unfettered access even when the project file is not open, allowing you access to the project when you have time to work on it.
Open Plan has the processing speed and capacity to look at resources, progress, and other project information across the business unit or portfolio of projects.
Open Plan supports the Project Manager and Project Team
Open Plan is designed to provide comprehensive solutions to real-world problems facing corporate project managers. Even in organizations with a strong commitment to modern project management techniques, there are often only a relative handful of skilled planners and schedulers who are charged with tracking the vast amounts of data that can be generated in the course of a typical large-scale project.
With Open Plan, planners can take advantage of the full range of high-end project management features, including:
- Creation of projects in support of proposals, execution and internal company projects
- All projects can share corporate resources definitions and calendars or create their own unique resources and calendars
- All projects can share standard corporate coding as well as project specific codes
- The creation of custom view layouts and reports
- The specification of custom calculations and nonlinear reporting calendars
- The ability to develop multi-project schedules, resource loadings, and reports
Planners using Open Plan can develop custom views and reports, and calculations. In many cases, standard resource lists, coding systems, work calendars, and even model networks would be developed and disseminated across the entire organization. A more comprehensive planning and control strategy might include the use of multi-project scheduling and resource loading in which master projects created by Open Plan users would reflect the dates and requirements of subprojects being planned and maintained at a lower level.
With Open Plan, creative organizations have the strategic and tactical tools to make corporate project management a reality.
While Open Plan can certainly be used in a stand-alone environment, most corporate users need to share project information across multiple departments and locations. For this reason, Open Plan stores its data within a database that can be accessed by many users.
What do you want to do?
Review First Steps (This topic describes some of the processes and steps that you may need when you start working with Open Plan.)