What is Claris MacProject II 1.0?

Like an automatic transmission, MacProject II provides a way for novices to quickly get up to speed in a complex discipline, but it does so at the expense of some control and finetuning ability. Although people with no project-management experience will be pleasantly surprised at how quickly they can lay out and monitor projects, others may be frustrated by the program’s non-standard PERT chart and the undisciplined method of creating a plan.

A Quick Study

MacProject II's quick learning curve comes partly from the direct method with which you create the Schedule chart, usually called a PERT (program evaluation review technique) chart. Tasks are represented by boxes that you create as you would in MacDraw. Dependencies between tasks (when one task cannot begin until a previous one has been concluded) are represented by lines connecting the two boxes. You can join tasks as you go, or you can create all the boxes and arrange and connect them later.

Although this is an easy way to create charts, it is not the way most professional project managers work. Normally, you plan tasks and dependencies using an outlining program or paper and pencil. Then you enter them into the project management software, which creates a PERT chart automatically. Also, standard PERT charts look nothing like MacProject II's Schedule chart. In PERT charts, lines represent tasks, and numbered circles (or other shapes) represent the beginning and end of the task. (In MacProject II, shapes represent tasks.) MacProject II also indicates critical path tasks — those which cannot be delayed without delaying the entire project — by displaying them in bold wherever they occur in the chart. Standard project managers string critical path tasks out along a straight line at the top of the chart.

Stevens, Lawrence. (August 1988). More than an Upgrade. Macworld. (pgs. 127-128).

 

See also: Claris MacProject II 2.x

 

Download Claris MacProject II 1.0 for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 4.0 up to Mac OS 8.1

Compatibility notes

Architecture: 68K

Mac OS 4.x - Mac OS 8.1

Macintosh 512KE or later

 

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac