RationalPlan Reviews & Product Details
RationalPlan is a project management solution catering to small and midsize businesses that want to plan projects, allocate resources, analyze workloads, track work progress, estimate project costs and manage budgets with ease. A key feature of the platform is RationalPlan’s embedded project guide that follows Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) guidelines and takes users through each step of the project planning process. RationalPlan can be deployed either on-premise or in the cloud.
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Linux, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, On-Premise Linux, On-Premise Windows |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
It works as a very competent project management tool, and is free on Ubuntu for single-use. It will open and save MS Project files - which helps with sharing plans.
Could do with additional analytics (unless these are on more expensive version) No full open-source edition (esp for Windows)
Planning relatively simple projects and sharing with other teams
Simple and straight forward project planner. The quality is in the ease of use and functionality. RationalPlan is a tool I use in every project. Helps to organize the stages of a project (I use the Multi version)/phases and all the activities. Nowadays I even use it to calculate costs and resources (hours) to plan the project portfolio. Support from RationalPlan is exceeding expectation. Prompt and correct response. The team solves issues swiftly.
The reports on costs and resource usage are very detailled. I would prefer an overview of highlights on resource capacity (though I can present it on a screen, printing it is not really easy). Next to that I would like to print a full project report (front page, financial overview, gantt, resources and costs) in 1 print. Risk management is still minimalistic (for most sufficient though).
Project planning; resource planning (multi projects); fast adjustments in complex projects with a lot of changes during the start-up of the project(s).
I like the simplicity of the program and ease of use while still having enough functions to create meaningful schedules.
At times I run across buggy issues while using the program that keeps lines highlighted.
The ability to create clear Gantt charts with dependencies.