Outline View

The Outline View is MinuteMan's primary data entry screen. A spreadsheet-like approach to entering tasks allows the easy definition of relationships between tasks, and shows "the whole picture" in one view. On the left-hand side you create an outline of your work (also referred to as a "Work Breakdown Structure"). In the area on the right you enter detail sub-tasks (the red and blue-boxes). The top of the screen lists detail information (dates, costs, etc.) for the currently highlighted task. The "flow" of work is typically entered from left to right. Tasks can be moved around, and links created between tasks, using drag-and-drop techniques. The work-flow can be viewed in further detail by switching to the PERT View.
Milestones are indicated as diamonds.
Critical Path Tasks and Milestones are indicated in red.
A Percent Complete Marker can be displayed for each Task or Milestone.
The outline can be indented to five levels.

Workflow (PERT) Chart View

MinuteMan provides an industry-standard PERT-Chart View of the project. Key information for each task or milestone is displayed in a box. Dependency lines, or "links", are drawn between dependent tasks.
Complete editing capabilities are provided in this view: adding/deleting/moving tasks, changing any task's data, editing links, etc.

Tasks are shown as rectangles and Milestones with clipped corners.
Critical Path Tasks and Milestones are indicated in red.
A Percent Complete Marker can be displayed for each task or milestone.

Timeline (Gantt) Chart View

A Timeline (or Gantt-Chart) view of the project plots activities against a calendar. Durations for each task are shown graphically on a timescale ranging from hours to a year. Views can be provided of tasks, resources, or resource usage by task.
Critical Path Tasks and Milestones are indicated in red.
A Percent Complete Marker can be displayed for each Task or Milestone
Timelines may be shown for tasks, resources, or resource-usage-by-task. Tasks is shown above. See Resources for more details.
Timelines for resources highlight any resources which are over-committed.

Resource Tracking

Graphical display and/or text reports on assignments of people by name or job category.
List all tasks each individual is working on, and when
Indicate over-allocation

Generate Reports

MinuteMan includes a versatile Report Generator. Reports may be previewed on-screen, printed, or sent to a text file to be included in a word-processing document.
Additionally, the overall Project Schedule may be exported to a spreadsheet-compatible file; any standard spreadsheet can then be used to create further schedule reports, or be rolled up into other reports. A special spread-sheet file format can be specified for direct import to Microsoft project. Reports may be configured to include, at the task, subproject, and overall-project level;

Schedule Data and Percent Complete
Predecessor Relationships
Staffing Assignments
Staffing Costs
Expenditures
Task-specific notes
A Task Filter allows reporting on selected groups of tasks based on criteria such as;

Critical Path
Milestones
Selected "Important" Tasks
Progress; Completed, In Progress, Not Started
Tasks with Headcount
Tasks incurring expenditures