If you're actually on staff with a company and your many projects are all to do with them then you can use these tools to juggle your resources. Rather than showing you the entirety of each project, you can now tell Dashboard to show you the detail for this month or this range of weeks.Īll of this helps you when you are deep into a project and especially when, inevitably, something is going wrong. Unlike the Project Inspector's straight text summary, Dashboard is a visual tool and what's new is that you can drill down a little further than you could. So now you're seeing an overview of each client's project and you can see where you need to put your effort next. Each OmniPlan project is a document on your Mac and when you create a new Dashboard window in the app, you can drag all of those documents into it. Say you're a freelance project manager and you're working with three clients on entirely separate projects. The Project Inspector says what's going on with the client's particular project but the Dashboard tells us everything. This is an OmniPlan feature that recognizes that no matter what we tell our clients, the truth is that we're probably working on multiple projects at the same time. That's the actual cost, in dollars and cents.Īs the person working in OmniPlan, you'll see that Project Inspector every time you want but you can also step further back to see the even bigger picture with Dashboard. This Project Inspector addition also displays a measure of the effort that's been put into the work: that's a record of the resources like staff time when you're managing a lot of people.ĭepending on how you've set up OmniPlan and whether you've really packed it with every detail possible, this Project Inspector also shows you the cost of the project. It shows you how close you are to completing in terms of the percentage of the job done. It tells you and the client the current duration of the project plus how much that's varied since the original plan. Now, though, it adds a Summary section that presents a kind of core overview that you can rattle off to your client when he or she phones. The Project Inspector has always been a panel that includes the basic details of the job like its start date. OmniPlan 3.9 takes two existing features, the Project Inspector and the Dashboard, and adds to them to help with both of these elements. The other is that if the work is this big and this complex it's also that expensive and you've probably got a client asking you how it's going. One is just that you can be juggling so much detail that keeping the big picture in view is tricky. Whatever you do use it for, though, there tend to be two key elements of your work that this update aims to improve.
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