Auspicia
The name Auspicia comes from a Roman ritual seeking omens about the future by studying the flight of birds in the sky. Our first mission is to create a project planning tool that can help you predict and handle the future, but in a more organized and scientific way. Projects seldom progress exactly as initially planned. That can lead to stress, extra long work hours and general misery, as well as financial losses. We want to give you a tool to avoid such misery. A tool to let you make better decisions, to be better prepared for the uncertain future, while also save you time on project management. A tool for continuous project planning through automation. We call this tool The PlanMinder.
The PlanMinder
The PlanMinder is a project planning tool based on automatic scheduling. You plan who does what, in what order, an with what priority. The PlanMinder calculates when.
Automatic scheduling not only makes overbooking resources impossible, it also makes it really easy to update the plan, and to keep it up to date. Participants report the work they do, and updates how much work remains when the estimate changes. The plan is automatically rescheduled, with new predictions on when milestones will be reached.
You never know exactly how long a task will take. The PlanMinder embraces that, and lets you enter estimates with uncertainty. Monte Carlo simulation is used to calculate the accumulated uncertainty of all your planned projects. You get probabilities for when milestones will be reached and if deadlines will be met. With automatic scheduling you can easily try different ways to optimize plans and mitigate risks. You can create scenarios to investigate what happens if something undesirable occurs, and keep a plan B ready.
Introduction Video
The net result of using The PlanMinder is Less Work & Better Plans.
About the Founders
Auspicia was founded in 2018 by Martin Forsberg and Ronja Frimalm.
Martin with a masters degree in Industrial Electronics has a background as a developer, project manager and manager of a R&D department. The embryo and core ideas behind The PlanMinder were developed during this time, and tested for six years at the department.
Ronja has a masters degree in Cognitive Science with a background at a research institute and as an interaction designer. She is the main architect of The PlanMinder user experience.
