Sorry, not a project management tool.

I seldom write reviews, but in this case I have make an exception since I feel a bit misled. The xPlan calls itself project management tool and looks great on pictures. And that’s what it is: it is a project “painter” designed to create nice looking Gantt. However, it’s lacking professional project management abilities:
- does not allow you to control task dependencies (e.g. child tasks needs to start 20 days before parent task)
- does not allow you to set conditions for task’s start or end (e.g. start no sooner or later than…)
- does not appear to trickle down date changes (unless I have not discovered a proper way to do that yet) to all dependent tasks (e.g. moving parent task, moves child tasks)
- unable to customize the columns on the Gantt view - grid doesn’t behave like a true grid (e.g. can’t copy and paste from other grids, can’t select multiple rows, etc.)
- key to delete a task is not mapped to any shortcut - you have use your mouse and click on the far corner on the bottom. Also for some reason, Delete under the edit menu is not highlighted, but yet the key on screen allows deletions.
- unable to rapidly add data. Must use mouse and keyboard (separately) to enter data. Becomes very slow.

I would classify this program a good to-do or task-manager utility, not a true project management program.

Dariuspoko about xPlan, v3.5.6