CNET Editors' review
You make a list, you check it twice. Though this application may be useful for managers who need some extra strategic help, a pad of paper and a pen could suffice for the same exercise. Progress Planner Professional starts off very basic by asking you to jot down notes on the strengths and weaknesses of your team while defining the team's overall goal. More data entry follows: you drill down to the team member, outlining his or her specific tasks and deadlines. Despite this wealth of data, the program offers no way to generate reports on the given information or to summarize data in any way--no charts, no graphs. The interface also is poorly designed, with loads of unused window space and unintuitive fields. Overall, aside from creating a laundry list of to-do tasks for your direct reports, we can't see much reason to get excited about Progress Planner Professional.
Publisher's Description
From The Simcor Group:
Manage your team with Progress Planner Professional, software that combines the elements of strategic planning, business planning, performance planning, and monitoring to effectively manage team performance for goal achievement. With Progress Planner Professional, you can define the strategic direction of your team, assign individual roles and responsibilities, set goals for multiple team members, prepare performance contracts for team members outlining goals and performance measures, define performance indicators and tasks for goal accomplishment, monitor performance indicators and tasks, and prepare individual and team performance reports with scores and anecdotes from monitoring.
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