Project Management help Page

ISE Project Management Links

A page of links to freeware, shareware, or limited access software resources on project management that could be useful to practitioners in the infrastructure systems engineering community.

This page was put together by:

Ed Hally, City of St. Paul e-mail: ed.hally@ci.stpaul.mn.us
Paul Huston, Mn/DOT e-mail: paul.huston@dot.state.mn.us
David Kuebler, RLK-Kuusisto e-mail: dkuebler@rlk-kuusisto.com

These individuals are students in the Inaugural ISE Class of the University of Minnesota's Infrastructure Systems Engineering program.

Last Updated 12/2000

THE LINKS

General Project Management Software

Activity and Expense Tracker electronic time sheet and expense reporting system that produces invoices and time tracking reports for projects (by Spirit Works Software Development).

System Requirements

Operating System	Special Requirements	Download Size	Approx. Download Time	Trial Period
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000	16 MB RAM	742 Kb	4 min. at 28.8 kbps	30 day

Project Kickstart helps brainstorm and develop project strategy (by Kickstart).

System Requirements

Operating System	Special Requirements	Download Size	Approx. Download Time	Trial Period
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000	NA	5.19 MB	27 min. at 28.8 kbps	See Manufacturer

MinuteMan creates project schedules, identies task dates and milestones, assigns people to tasks, creates Gant or Pert charts and reports (by Minuteman Systems).

System Requirements

Operating System	Special Requirements	Download Size	Approx. Download Time	Trial Period
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000	NA	2.61 MB	14 min. at 28.8 kbps	21 day

Cost Specific Project Management Software

Budget Manager tracks project expenditures, income, personnel, labor costs, purchase orders, supplier and client invoices; generates reports and monitors actual expenditures against both budgeted and forecasted (by David S. Cox).

System Requirements

Operating System	Special Requirements	Download Size	Approx. Download Time	Trial Period
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000	32 MB RAM, Pentium 90	5.28 MB	27 min. at 28.8 kbps	45 day

Risk Analysis risk and contingency cost estimating software (by Katmar Software).

System Requirements

Operating System	Special Requirements	Download Size	Approx. Download Time	Trial Period
Windows 3.1x, 95, 98, NT	NA	595 Kb	3 min. at 28.8 kbps	Shareware

PCM/Estimator cost estimating software that is compatible with Microsoft Excel, Word and Project (by NHYSoft, Inc.).

System Requirements

Operating System	Special Requirements	Download Size	Approx. Download Time	Trial Period
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000	32 MB RAM, Pentium 133	5.0 MB	26 min. at 28.8 kbps	Demo

Full-Featured Project Management Software

Microsoft Project 98 monitors and allocates personnel, time, and cost resources (by Microsoft).

System Requirements

Operating System	Special Requirements	Download Size	Approx. Download Time	Trial Period
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000	16 MB RAM, 20-40 MB hard-disk avail.	21.09 MB	1.75 hours at 28.8 kbps	60 day

Scitor PS8 personnel and cost resource planning and allocation for multiple projects (by Scitor Corporation).

System Requirements

Operating System	Special Requirements	Download Size	Approx. Download Time	Trial Period
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000	32 MB RAM, Pentium 120	19.11 MB	1.5 hours at 28.8 kbps	14 day