Project Success Toolkit for Microsoft Project

The Project Success Toolkit is an add-on for the project management software Microsoft Project. The toolkit is said to improve the functionality of any off-the-shelf version and allows the user to easily utilise the full range of the software.

The toolkit adds functionality to Project to allow an activity’s owner to specify its duration and amend it if necessary. Project’s plans are updated using percentage complete figures. The toolkit also adds the ability to update plans using the estimated remaining duration or estimated completion date.

All activities are allocated to an Activity Manager. The toolkit’s Group and Sort function lets the user group activities by manager, letting the user see what each person is responsible for. An Activity Update form lets people report progress to their manager.

The Look Ahead report can be used by the project manager to remind Activity Managers about activities due in the next work period. The Project Metrics report, meanwhile, contains metrics like the average activity duration, missing predecessors and successors, the percentage of tasks on the critical path, total slack and projected finish date.