Use IBM® Rational® Project Conductor to
manage your programs and projects.
Creating a program
A program is a group of related projects that are managed
together to achieve benefits that might not be available when the
projects are managed individually.
Managing project risks
You create risks to record events and circumstances that
occur beyond the control of a project team, such as attrition. Project
managers can determine mitigation or contingency plans by foreseeing
risks as part of the project.
Managing schedules
After creating a project and project WBS, create the expected
schedule.
Tracking project progress
As a project or program manager, or even as a team member,
you will need to review the progress on the individual project activities,
and the overall project. You can use the percent effort complete (%EC),
percent complete (%C), and percent duration complete (%DC) information
in the Schedule Gantt viewlet to monitor and track project progress.
Managing time and status reporting
Resources that are assigned work on a project must enter
in a timesheet the time they spent on their tasks. Project managers
or assigned approvers of these time entries review and either approve
or reject the timesheets. Timesheet entry and review is a regular
and repetitive task during a project execution cycle. For duration-based
projects, team members can update the status of their work items directly
in the Schedule Gantt viewlet.