IBM Project Assistant (1986) 0 Planning DOS

IBM Project Assistant is one of a number of office applications sold by IBM alongside their IBM Personal Computers. Project Assistant is a project management program used to create and track project schedules, costs, and resources. It supports organizing projects using a horizontal bar (Gantt) chart and maintaining files of calendars, costs, resources, and project relationships. Project Assistant also provides the tools to predict the outcome of a project when you ask "What if?" questions. It also features customizable project reports.

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Microsoft Project (1984) 8 Planning DOS

Microsoft Project is a project management chart and gantt chart generator. It is a Microsoft Office family member, and built on the Office code, although it has never shipped with any Office suite.

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Time Line (1986) 0 Planning DOS

A once popular, powerful, easy to use project management program first released in 1984 from Breakthrough Software. Has unlimited number of tasks, dependencies, resources, and cost categories. It competed against Microsoft Project, and CA-SuperProject. Breakthrough Software merged with Symantec in 1987. The final version was 6.x for Windows.

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VisiSchedule (1984) 7 Planning DOS

VisiSchedule, from VisiCorp, is an interactive visually-oriented project task scheduling program. It gives you the tools to control projects, meet deadlines, level resources, and beat cost targets. As you develop your project you can use it to create "What-if" scenarios, and instantly see the results.

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