Meisterplan + aXc-Project
Strategic Resource Management for aXc-Project
Plan tasks, timelines, and milestones in aXc-Project and use Meisterplan to create project portfolios that really work. Your PMO can simulate different staffing and project scenarios in Meisterplan – while your project managers continue working with their trusted tool set.
Innovative, Multi-Project Resource Management with a Focus on What Is Essential
Project managers process their specific projects in aXc-Project, from scheduling to task assignments. The PMO focuses on interdependencies. So, they need a solution that quickly – and ideally graphically – identifies challenges in the project portfolio, especially with regard to project schedules and new resource requirements.
- Meisterplan is the planning solution you’ve been looking for, both for acute resource constraints and for strategic project portfolio design in the context of, for example, annual planning
- Your project managers send reservation requests for capacities directly to Meisterplan, where the resources are planned across projects. The PMO approves or rejects the request, or suggests an alternative solution
Resource Management for aXc-Project: Fast and Secure Integration
- Take the projects that you want to plan in Meisterplan, and combine them in an aXc-Portfolio, marking your resource requirements as “Reservation”
- Push the operational planning to Meisterplan via the aXc main menu
- Use Meisterplan scenarios to create optimal solutions for your interdepartmental resource planning
- Retrieve the optimized planning status from Meisterplan via the aXc main menu
What Customers Love About Meisterplan
There is no other product that does what Meisterplan does in terms of portfolio management and resource management without unessential extra features. If there were another product that does what Meisterplan does, I would have found it, because I tried them all.
“This tool gives us the invaluable insight we need to make important decisions about when to start projects and when to hire. It can help you align your hiring needs with your sales pipeline. It's the only tool in its class that provides capacity planning and projections to coordinate hiring and sales leads.”
“Meisterplan filled a significant gap for us in understanding how we are utilizing our capacity. We now have a much better idea when we need to either say no to new projects or adjust timelines and team members assigned to projects. No other tool gave us this high-level view. It brought our stress level down.”
“Meisterplan simplified our resource management. Great too to streamline your complete resource management which will save you lots of planning hours and avoid misunderstandings. You always see the current allocation of your resources and with simple drag-and-drop you move projects and recognize the changes for your resources and financials.”
“Meisterplan helps us deliver our projects on time, within the agreed budget, and in top quality.”
“With Meisterplan we were productive in just a few hours without extensive training. It offers the chance to use our own project management method which makes it quite simple to roll out. And it's well done for project portfolio management. Project Portfolio Management and Project Management Processes become simple and fast.”
“With Meisterplan, our resource utilization is more transparent. Due to the seamless integration into our existing processes, we can increase the satisfaction of both our customers and employees.”
“Meisterplan is now a key element of our portfolio planning. It helps us to make sure that our portfolio is realistic and that we create plans that really work.”
“Everyday is a Meisterplan Day. Thanks to the simplicity of the product and its excellent usability the Project Portfolio Process PPM was holistically optimized and strategic decisions for projects ensured. Eager to further enhance maturity of PPM with future releases of the product.”
“I believe in the solution and see how it can benefit any company that manages multiple projects simultaneously. Which I think is just about EVERY company!”
“State of the art resource planning. We manage more than 100 projects and change requests every year. Meisterplan helps us maximize our resources and keep track of our projects. The operation is simple, so no training is required for the application. For me, Meisterplan is the best resource planning tool currently available.”
“Meisterplan opened our eyes to resource bottlenecks and new portfolio solutions.”
“With Meisterplan, we can always see what exactly the impact of doing any project is – and it´s really simple to use.”
“Meisterplan is an excellent Resource Management tool. The visual interface makes the software intuitive to understand and use. I have found few other tools that can match its capabilities. Definitely love the scenario comparison function. It's pretty easy to get up and running, but you can get more complex as you get more comfortable.”
“I give Meisterplan an A+ for the experience of modifying the project timeline and resourcing. Consider this model if you’ve struggled to forecast resource capacity using spreadsheets or large commercial tools.”