Resource-based estimating: linking resource, cost, and time

Allocate resources in your cost estimate to activities in a schedule with our resource-based estimating tool. Cleopatra seamlessly connects the cost and time elements of your projects to ensure efficient resource allocation across time-driven projects or turnarounds. By visualizing the progression of your resource usage over time, you can quickly identify and resolve potential resource bottlenecks and cashflow issues.

Advanced planning and scheduling

With Cleopatra’s work pack management software, you can define dependencies and relations within work packs. This capability equips the scheduler with the necessary data for timeslot allocation, resource leveling, and schedule optimization. By specifying task dependencies and relationships, you can ensure that your project and/or turnaround schedule is accurately represented and that resources are allocated efficiently. This enhances the scheduler’s ability to optimize schedules and streamline project execution.

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A software dashboard showing work pack scheduling with the start date and execution team alongside a Gantt chart.

A project scheduling software dashboard including resource use over time.

Visual timeline management

Cleopatra makes scheduling visual and intuitive with interactive Gantt charts, resource timelines, and milestone tracking dashboards. These tools provide a clear picture of task durations, dependencies, and critical paths, helping teams monitor progress in real time. With this visibility, project managers can spot risks early, adjust resources, and keep projects on track with confidence.

User-friendly interface design

Cleopatra’s intuitive interface facilitates efficient project and turnaround scheduling while streamlining project management tasks. It simplifies the process of creating and modifying schedules, assigning resources, and defining dependencies. With its user-friendly design, Cleopatra empowers project managers to navigate even complex project schedules with ease.

A project scheduling software dashboard showing information being exported to Primavera P6, including a column that indicates the changes being made.

A project controls software dashboard that includes SPI and earned schedule pie charts, alongside a new budget baseline chart

Comprehensive system integration

Cleopatra seamlessly integrates with other software platforms and external tools such as Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project. Within Cleopatra’s project controls software environment, the schedule is well-integrated across various parts of the system: the cost estimate, cost management baseline, work packs, and more all have access to the project schedule. This ensures that responsible managers will have a holistic view of the project or turnaround, enabling them to make informed decisions and effectively manage resources, costs, and timelines.

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Feature Highlights

All our solutions come with their own unique features. Explore a brief summary of some of them.

Efficiency through bi-directional integration

Consistency by a single source of truth

Enhance estimating by including schedule-driven costs

Complete work planning by combining the schedule with work packs

Accurate, time-phased baseline for cost control

Optimize workload through resource curve dashboards

What our customers are saying

"Cleopatra Enterprise is a very flexible tool, and it can be configured by users according to the project cost management tasks on any type of project. Moreover, the Cleopatra Team is very innovative and professional, and they stand above the rest in cost engineering knowledge"

“The Project Analysis capabilities of Cleopatra Enterprise and the cost knowledgebase maintained in the tool will help us make high-quality estimates. This will enable us to create an efficient and repeatable cost estimating work process, providing the management with reliable, professional estimates that allow them to make the right decisions. With Cleopatra, Rijkswaterstaat will be able to advise the financier on the budget to be reserved, advise project teams on the cost progress in time, and advise at tenders.”

FAQs about Cleopatra's Project Scheduling Software

How to schedule work planning activities?

To schedule work planning activities, estimate the time required for preparing the work packs, identify dependencies, and create a work planning timeline. Project managers can ensure on-time completion by monitoring these steps before starting the execution phase.
What is scheduling in project management?

Scheduling in project management involves detailing all activities and relating them to time slots for execution. It encompasses setting start dates and allocating resources to complete the project on time. With Cleopatra Enterprise, scheduling becomes more reliable since scope, schedule, and cost are integrated.
How to visualize project schedules?
Visualizing project schedules involves using tools or software to represent tasks, their dependencies, and timelines in a clear and understandable format, such as Gantt charts or timeline diagrams. These visualizations help project teams and stakeholders easily comprehend the project’s progress, tasks, and deadlines. In Cleopatra, schedules are used in various places. For example:
- schedules for cost estimates in case of time-driven costs
- schedules for baselines and forecasts in cost management
- schedules for project milestones in benchmarking
- detailed schedules and resource distributions in work pack management and execution.
What is the benefit of linking my estimating solution to my scheduling solution?
By connecting your scheduling solution to Cleopatra’s cost estimating software, you can enjoy several benefits, including:
- Improved accuracy: Estimates automatically feed into your schedule, reducing manual entry errors and ensuring timelines match realistic cost and resource assumptions.
- Better resource planning: Scheduling can instantly reflect the resource requirements from your estimates, ensuring the right people, equipment, and materials are available when necessary.
- Faster project setup: Linking removes duplicate work. Once you finalize an estimate, your schedule can be generated or updated automatically.
- Enhanced Collaboration: All teams work from the same data, which improves transparency and reduces miscommunication between estimating and project management teams.