One of the biggest reasons you might wish to download and use Open Workbench is that it competes with Microsoft Project in terms of features. Aside from the issue of speed, Open Workbench has many features project managers will be interested in including:
- Track human, equipment, materials and expense resources,
- View Gantt Charts
- Integrate with the Clarity System
- Define Projects and create work breakdown structures
- Associate guidelines with tasks
- Schedule tasks automatically
- Create inter-project dependencies
- Assign resources to tasks
- Define and create project base-lines
- Schedule to either general or individual calendars
Open Workbench boasts many more features project managers will find helpful to their performance. The program's most useful feature is its scheduling capabilities, and the ability to create a Work Breakdown Structure simply. Once the WBS has been created, project managers can easily assign resources, create dependencies, and create a schedule.
