We’ve recently released a major update to SharedPlan Pro. Pro is our project planning and management software for Mac OS X and Windows.

Pro 6 has a wide range of improvements with the most visible being the Calendar view and the improved user interface. The Calendar view provides you with a view into each month of your project and the tasks that are scheduled for any given day. The improved user interface provides you with quicker access to the tools that are most frequently used.

The Calendar view rounds out the views available to you by complementing the Visual Plan editor (a dependency focused project editor), the Gantt Chart editor (an editor focused on the project time line), and the Resource Chart (provides a view into the assignments for each project resource).

Beyond the Calendar view and the improved user interface, we have made a number of internal improvements that increase the robustness of Pro from top to bottom.

Pro 6 is available for purchase immediately.

If you purchased Pro after November 1, 2009 please contact us for a free upgrade to Pro 6.

As always, we provide discounts on upgrades to existing Pro customers.

Most of us have competing demands for our time each day. Well, we’ve just completed an update to SharedPlan Central that takes a look at all of your projects stored in Central and then presents a list of the next tasks and issues you have been assigned. This is an efficient and easy way for you and those on your projects to stay focused and up to date on your assignments without having to look through all the ongoing projects.

Assignments are made using either Pro or the Central editor and assigning a resource to tasks. When the resource logs in to Central he will see his assignments.
As part of this, a resource may mark a task as complete causing email to be sent to the project owner letting her know. We all know that things change so if you later need to mark the task as incomplete – no problem.

This feature is available for your immediate use. Log in to Central now and your tasks and issues (alongside your projects as before) will be presented on your Central home page.

Pro has recently been updated to revision 5.4.19. This latest maintenance release includes:

• fixes related to resource reporting system
• significant performance improvements in calculating the critical path in large projects
• a fix so that earlier and empty portions of the Gantt chart are not displayed
• a fix for exporting calendars to Outlook 2003.

You can get the latest version of Pro at:

http://www.sharedplan.com/getsharedplan.html

Apple has just approved our iPhone app that will help you find your next job – Prospector.

Finding job prospects isn’t the hard part; working through them until you’ve accepted an offer is. Prospector helps you manage your job search from initial contact to accepting an offer.

As you find job openings to pursue, Prospector will track each one until you’ve accepted that new position at your dream company. Prospector helps you untangle all the information on your job prospects: job titles and salaries, companies and contacts, appointments and todos, and your overall progress through your interviews. It also provides you with a quick overview of all the job openings, allowing you to see at a glance where you stand at any given moment.

At SharedPlan, we’re all about supporting your success in planning and managing projects and one of your most important projects is having a job you like – Prospector helps you get there.

Prospector (English and Spanish) is now available in the App Store. Get it now.

Pro has recently been updated to revision 5.4.16. This latest maintenance release includes fixes related to the reporting system as well as significant performance improvements in large projects.

Our project planning and management for Mac OS X and Windows is available at: http://www.sharedplan.com/getsharedplan.html

Central users will benefit from our recent improvements to infrastructure as well as a maintenance release to the online editor. You will find that use of Central in general and the online editor in particular is faster and smoother.

SharedPlan Central, our web based project planning and management tools are always available for your use at https://www.sharedplan.net

The SharedPlan iPhone app has undergone a couple of minor revision to fix a couple of minor problems and make slight improvements to the user interface.

The SharePlan iPhone app is free.

We’ve just made Pro version 5.4.7 available. Pro 5.4.7 of our desktop project management software for Mac OS X and Windows is a maintenance release which fixes a number of minor issues.

We encourage you to update your version of Pro at your earliest convenience.

We’ve recently release version 1.0.1 of the SharedPlan iPhone project management app. Version 1.0.1 fixes a couple of minor problems – the app has been remarkably solid and is in use by thousands of iPhone users. The iPhone app is freely available here.

Also, we’d love to hear from you about what else you would like to see in the app as we are currently making plans for the next major update to our iPhone app for project management. Please let us know what you would like to see in the next app. Thanks!

If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch we have some great news for you!

As I mentioned in our last newsletter we have been working on an app for the iPhone. Well, the SharedPlan iPhone Project Management app has been approved by Apple (on the first try – which we understand is pretty rare) and is now freely available to you. You can download it from iTunes now.
The SharedPlan iPhone app provides you with a read-only view into the latest status of your projects stored in SharedPlan Central (our online tools for project planning and management). Project status that may be viewed includes:

• a summary of the project with project goal, web site, overview, and version information
• project resources with assignments, notes, email and phone numbers (you can quickly send email or call resources)
• project tasks with start and end dates, duration, resource, and critical path information.

The SharedPlan app connects to SharedPlan Central to gather your project information. Use the app with your existing account, or let it create a free account for you and populate it with a sample project to get you started.

The SharedPlan iPhone app caches project information so you can update the project information before going into an area with no wireless network – very handy for meetings.

We’ve been using it internally for a few weeks now and have been amazed at how access through the iPhone rounds out the services offered by Central and Pro. With the addition of the iPhone app you can now truly stay up on your project deliverables and status from anywhere, anytime – Pro on your Mac or PC, Central for the Web, and now the iPhone app for your pocket/purse.

As always, we welcome your feedback on the iPhone app. And, if you would like, leave a review or rating in the iTunes App Store. We’re thinking about the next app and would love to hear from you on what you would like to see in it.