About Graphical Path Method™ and Netpoint®
Graphical Path Planning is an innovative approach to Project Planning that adopts the Graphical Path Method™(GPM®) developed by PMA Technologies LLC. U.S.
Full details regarding GPM® and Netpoint® are detailed on the PMA Technologies wesbite linked below. All References to GPM and Netpoint remain Trademarks of PMA Technologies.
What is the Graphical Path Method™?
The Graphical Path Method™ is an alternative to CPM that promotes rapid, collaborative, and informed project planning. GPM® allows schedules to be created more intuitively and introduces innovative concepts that improve schedule optimization and analysis.
Collaborative Graphical Planning with Netpoint®
Netpoint® is the only Planning and Scheduling tool based on GPM® principles, that enables interactive collaborative planning.
Benefits of using Netpoint® over traditional CPM tools include:
- Intuitive visual representation of activities and relationships on a single canvas
- Automatic real-time schedule updates when activities and durations change
- Critical Path identification and visualisation that responds dynamically
- Improved communication of Project Schedules, compared to rows in tables.
Netpoint Features
In addition to the basic features of other Planning and Scheduling tools, Netpoint offers the following features:
- Scheduling on Early, Planned or Late Dates
- As-Built Critical Path Analysis
- Multiple Activities per line
- Polytime® – Planning units from minutes to year
- Real-Time resource histograms and curves
- Multiple Calendars, custom non-work days and Weather Modeling
- Baseline/Target comparisons
- Constraints
- Filters, Codes and Layout management
NetRisk™ - Schedule Risk Analyses with Netpoint
Netrisk® is the Risk Analysis Module for Netpoint®, allowing Schedule Risk Analyses to be performed on schedules generated in Netpoint®
Benefits of using Netrisk® for Schedule Risk Analyses:
- Generate Risk Registers for qualitative and quantitative risk analyses
- Default proportionate duration ranging
- Risk Events with independent impacts upon selected activities
- Correlation across duration, risk likelihood and impacts
- View schedule at chosen confidence level results
Sample Netpoint Outputs
The following examples are Netpoint GPM® outputs.
Australasian Project Planning – Graphical Path Planning Services
Licensing Sales, Training and Support
Australasian Project Planning as a local vendor, can assist in licensing, sales, training and support to Netpoint® and Netrisk® users in the Australian and Asian regions through PMA Technologies.
Strategic Planning and Programme Development
Netpoint® is ideally suited to the following situations:
- Strategic Early phase planning, where planning may be in whole weeks or months
- Level 1/Level 2 Programme development where options and alternatives are routinely required
- Collaborative planning where many users will have input into the one schedule
- Planning involves users not familiar with complexities of CPM scheduling
Australasian Project Planning can assist by undertaking the above, or facilitating workshops for the above.
Schedule Risk Analyses
Netpoint® together with Netrisk® are suited to performing Schedule Risk Analyses in the following scenarios:
- The analyses is to be performed at the strategic Level 1/ Level 2 detail
- Schedule and Risks are in aggregate weekly or monthly periods
- Planning with variable activity durations and/or requiring rapid analyses
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