Most Project Management tools have estimates built into the process for metric tracking later to gauge estimates vs. actual progress or theory vs. reality project planning. Too often in the planning stage, the project planners are different team members than the task executors. When implementation is to begin, there is a hand off to a team lead or project manager to delegate, track and hold task members accountable for their guesses on work estimates that are nearly universally incorrect based on two factors - 1. They either guess too low by using a best case, ambitious scenario to please their boss or 2. They have been burned badly in the past and will pad their estimates with a fudge factor anywhere up to double the time they think they will finish to give themselves some breathing room.

There's a phrase that goes "Man plans and God laughs." Essentially, all of the factors that are estimated for up front can't possibly be known with such limited resources. When Murphy's Law begins to creep into a project, skews deadlines and causes general stress, there is a tendency for humans to point fingers and start laying blame elsewhere. In this hierarchical system, project teams will cover their work and make excuses that hurts morale.

PlanDone acknowledges that over 80% of projects fail in the marketplace with existing PM resources and software. They fail because they are overdue, overbudget and overextended in terms of expectations. No software can accurately accommodate this guessing process. When an employee is being grilled in the board room for missing deadlines, there is only one thing they can say "We're working as fast as we can right now."

PlanDone's Timeline provides a visual representation of this process because at the end of the day knowing the projected deadline based on the current rate of work, is the only answer an executive wants to hear. Showing them a colorful chart filled with analysis on unexpected tangents or reporting on delays especially in expensive software will only make matters worse, and the project manager will be shown the door - possibly for good.

PlanDone's simplicity is its most powerful feature to help teams get their plans done on time every time.