Engineering services
Engineering firms deliver to contract dates and accept work product by product. Acceptance criteria and plan versions show what the client agreed to.
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PPM Express alternative: FlexiProject compared
FlexiProject is a PPM Express alternative for project offices that run a charter, approved plan versions and products with acceptance criteria. The portfolio adds up figures straight from the projects.
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FlexiProject vs PPM Express
| Try for free | PPM Express | |
|---|---|---|
| Critical path | ||
| Archive of approved plan versions | ||
| Kanban board on the same tasks as the Gantt chart | ||
| Recurring tasks | ||
| Project charter | ||
| Charter templates per project category | ||
| Risk register | ||
| Configurable risk matrix | ||
| Project products with acceptance criteria | ||
| Project budget | ||
| Project template with schedule, budget, risks and products | ||
| Project programs | ||
| Project portfolios | ||
| Portfolio financials summed from projects | ||
| Strategic goals with KPIs | ||
| Time tracking | ||
| Project chat | ||
| On-premises version |
A PPM Express alternative for the whole project record
Open a 30-day test account without a form, build one current project and approve its first plan version.
FlexiProject key strengths
A good PPM Express alternative adds plan versions, a kanban board, a charter, products and a configurable risk matrix to the schedule.
Keep every plan the sponsor signed off.
Each approved version of the plan stays in the archive with its author, date and reason. A year later you open any two versions and see what moved, instead of one baseline that the last save replaced.
Let the team move cards on the plan itself.
The board shows the same tasks as the Gantt chart. A card the team moves changes the task status in the schedule at once, so the project manager reads progress without chasing updates.
Start each project from an agreed document.
The charter takes milestones, costs and risks from the project and goes through an approval path. Each project category can have its own charter template, and approved versions stay in the archive.
Agree up front how each result will be accepted.
Every product carries an owner, a deadline and acceptance criteria. It links to the tasks that deliver it, so a slipping task shows on the result the client is waiting for.
Score risks on the matrix your company uses.
The administrator sets the matrix as 3×3, 5×5 or other dimensions. Each risk points to the task it threatens, and typical risks go straight into project templates.
key strengths
A PPM Express alternative with portfolio figures built from projects
A board looks at the portfolio budget to decide what to fund next. In FlexiProject the portfolio adds up the budgets, actual costs and forecasts of its projects, with deviations. When a project manager moves a budget line, the portfolio total changes the same day, with nothing to copy by hand.
flexible configuration
Work areas with their own rules
Each division gets a work area with its own charter templates, approval paths and project attributes. The administrator sets them in the application, and one project can sit in several work areas at once. Approval paths come with every licence, not only with the most expensive plan.
Industries where FlexiProject is a PPM Express alternative
Manufacturing
Product launches pass through approvals before money is spent. Each approved plan version stays on record for the next audit.
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Technology
IT teams keep sprints in Jira and move release tasks on a kanban board. The board and the Gantt chart use the same tasks.
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Other sectors
Energy, construction and public bodies also run projects in FlexiProject. Open the page for your industry.
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PPM Express alternative: frequently asked questions
FlexiProject as a PPM Express alternative
Is FlexiProject a good PPM Express alternative?
Yes, FlexiProject is a good PPM Express alternative for a project office that wants the charter, plan versions and products in one system. The project management software covers the project from idea to closure.
Does the PPM Express alternative keep more than one baseline?
Yes. PPM Express keeps one baseline per project, and setting it again replaces the previous one. FlexiProject as a PPM Express alternative stores every approved version, and the Gantt chart tool shows the deviation from the current one.
Which licence of the PPM Express alternative do I need for approvals?
Any licence. In PPM Express stage approvals come only with the Enterprise Ultra plan. FlexiProject as a PPM Express alternative has no minimum number of licences, and the pricing page lists the rates.
Plan, approvals and budget
How does the PPM Express alternative handle a change to an approved plan?
You raise a change request with the reason and the new dates. It shows the planned and requested end date and budget, and the approval workflow software routes it through ordered steps.
How does the budget work?
FlexiProject as a PPM Express alternative holds costs and revenues in lines of the project budget software, linked to schedule tasks. Each line spreads month by month, and every budget change becomes a new approved version.
What does a project template carry?
A template in the project template module holds the schedule with dependencies, budget lines, typical risks and products. Its dates count in working days from the project start.
Portfolio, programs and strategy
How do I decide which projects to fund?
The project scoring software rates ideas against criteria and weights you set. Each project type can use its own model, and a project can be scored again during delivery.
How does the PPM Express alternative track portfolio results?
FlexiProject as a PPM Express alternative sums the budgets, actual costs and forecasts of projects in the project portfolio software. A simulation leaves selected projects out and shows the new totals.
How do projects connect to company goals?
Goals in the strategy management module carry a baseline, a target and a current value. Projects attach to a goal with their level of impact, and the board sees both on one screen.
How do related projects share a schedule?
The program management tool ties together tasks from several projects. A what-if preview shows the new dates of each project before you approve a shift.
Reviews, reports and templates
How does the board review projects?
The project review module pulls budget, deviations, milestones and risks from each project for a review on a set date. Board decisions and comments go to the review archive.
How does the PMO report across projects?
The project reporting tool queries schedules, budgets, risks, products and plan changes without code. A result exports to Excel with its filters kept.
Can a finished project become a template?
Yes. The knowledge base module saves a finished project as a template in one step, together with its risks and products.
Resources, time and routine work
How is workload checked?
The resource management software takes daily availability from working hours and leave, also imported from Outlook. You get a warning when an assignment goes past it.
How is working time logged?
Hours go onto tasks through the time tracking tool, from the browser or the mobile app. Planned and logged effort show on the same task row.
Where do recurring duties go?
PPM Express does not support recurring tasks. In the operational tasks module a recurring duty comes back after it is done, with an owner and watchers.
Team, Jira and hosting
Where does the project team hold its discussions?
Each project has a chat archived with it, and comments with mentions sit on tasks, risks and budget lines. The team communication tool sends notifications in the app and by email.
Can developers stay in Jira?
Yes. The Jira integration pulls issues into the schedule with a JQL query and maps their owners to FlexiProject users.
Can FlexiProject run on our own servers?
Yes. PPM Express runs only in Microsoft Azure. FlexiProject also comes as an on-premises version with the same features, and the work areas module keeps each division’s rules on your infrastructure.
Show us one of your projects
Show us one project you run in PPM Express. We will set up its charter, plan versions and products in a FlexiProject test account.
