Control and flexibility are two major themes of the Planio project management platform. With Planio, you gain complete control over your project strategy through the use of roadmaps & milestones. Issues can be assigned to milestones and a summary of their progress can be viewed via a roadmap or an auto-generated Gantt chart. Planio uses a role-based permission structure to customize every step in the issue management process.
Building a Roadmap
In order to facilitate project planning, Planio uses roadmaps and milestones to convey critical status information at the click of a mouse. A milestone typically signifies the completion of a key deliverable — each task can be assigned to a milestone for progress-tracking purposes. The roadmap feature is designed to provide summary information via a dashboard interface — it contains a list of all milestones and conveys a percentile average of all issues in terms of completion rates.
![The roadmap interface](../images/screenshots/project-management/the-roadmap-interface.png?1721728202)
Milestones and the Gantt Chart
Making sense of tasks within the broader scope of a project is a snap, thanks to the auto-generated Gantt Chart. Each task associated with a date or milestone appears on the chart. The Gantt chart, coupled with Planio’s roadmap, gives you the ability to see task progress at-a-glance. In addition, a sophisticated workflow permission structure enables you to specify exactly how project issues can progress in terms of their status.
![Gantt chart](../images/screenshots/project-management/gantt-chart-interface.png?1721728202)
Flexibility via Roles
Planio is all about flexibility, whether that means using recommended defaults or starting from scratch with your own uniquely customized features. A great example of this is Planio’s role-based access. By using 100% configurable roles, we enable you to implement a customized workflow based on the responsibilities of each team member. After defining roles and permissions, you can create meaningful issue statuses that describe the step-by-step process your users take when working on an issue.
![Creating a new role](../images/screenshots/project-management/creating-a-new-role.png?1721728202)
Managing Time
Every issue can be assigned a start & due date, % done, and estimated completion time. Activity can then be time-tracked by clicking “Track time” — a stopwatch runs in the background — and can be subsequently stopped by clicking “Stop tracking”. Upon stoppage the user can enter details about time spent, such as a comment, activity selection, or even complete a custom field. All of this data is retrieved and compiled by the project’s Gantt chart to auto-generate a visualization of dependencies.
![Tracking spent time](../images/screenshots/project-management/tracking-spent-time.png?1721728202)
Benefits: Project and Workflow Management
- Roadmaps: Provide summary project information via a dashboard interface.
- Milestones: Assign issues to milestones for progress-tracking purposes.
- Time Tracking: Track time and record details about time spent on issues.
- Gantt Integration: Planio retrieves & compiles time data for auto chart generation.
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