You don’t enter start or finish dates on your tasks.
You simply assign your tasks, estimate them and arrange them in priority order via easy drag & drop.
LiquidPlanner automatically calculates a range of probable start and finish dates for each of your tasks, and rolls those projections up to your projects.
Deadline dates drive alerts to let you know when you're at risk of missing a deadline.
It’s realistic
Estimates are entered as ranges, allowing you to capture and manage the inherent uncertainty in all projects.
LiquidPlanner references member availability to do automatic resource leveling. It's impossible for a person to be over-booked in LiquidPlanner because we simply push out task start dates to respect availability.
For any given task, LiquidPlanner takes the ranged estimate and weighs it against the task owner’s availability and other higher-priority tasks. It also factors in any delays or dependencies that might be affecting the task, and it applies a statistical algorithm to determine the likely start and finish dates.
In the absence of delays or dependencies, your top priority task is scheduled to start on the current day. The earliest start date for each of your tasks thereafter is equal to the earliest finish date of your task that precedes it in the priority order.
It’s dynamic
When you make changes to a task, LiquidPlanner immediately recalculates the dates for that task, as well as the dates for all other tasks that got affected by the change you made. You’ll see the rescheduling indicator at the top of the screen and you’ll see the results of the recalculation when you refresh.
To maintain an accurate schedule, you simply log progress and re-estimate your work as you go.
