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Practical help for planning people, machines and projects

Guides that help you choose and use scheduling software, starting from the tools you already know.

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Illustration of a project as a sequence of tasks on a weekly calendar, with tasks waiting to be assigned to peopleGuide · Project planning

Project planning software: planning the work is half the job

Where a good project plan breaks on staffing, how to plan the sequence first and name the people later, and how PlanningPME sits next to your project tool.

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Illustration of a spreadsheet used for scheduling, with overlapping jobs and a gap in the weekly planGuide · Spreadsheets

Excel for scheduling: where it stops working and what PlanningPME adds

Where a spreadsheet is enough, where it stops, and how PlanningPME compares on sharing, absences, conflicts and skills, with a side-by-side table.

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