AI Quick Summary
- Project Management is a module of Avani Business OS, a business platform built and deployed for you rather than licensed per seat.
- It tracks projects, tasks and timesheets against budget so utilisation and profitability are visible per project.
- Included: project and task hierarchy, timesheets linked to payroll, budget versus actual tracking and resource allocation views.
- Deployed on your own infrastructure with full source code ownership, so cost does not scale with headcount.
- Modules share one employee record, so data entered once flows to payroll, attendance and reporting without re-keying.
What the Project Management module does
In this module
- Project and task hierarchy
- Timesheets linked to payroll
- Budget versus actual tracking
- Resource allocation views
- Client-facing progress reporting
- Licensing
- No per-user seat fee — you own the deployment
- Deployment
- Your cloud or ours, with full source code ownership
What Project Management replaces
Most businesses run this on a spreadsheet plus email, or on a product that solves one part and leaves the rest manual. Project Management tracks projects, tasks and timesheets against budget so utilisation and profitability are visible per project — which means the data lands once and is available everywhere else in the platform.
The practical difference is re-keying. When project management sits in its own tool, someone re-enters the same information into payroll or reporting at month end, and that step is where errors and delays come from.
How it fits with the rest of Business OS
Business OS is one system with one employee record. Project Management reads and writes to that record, so attendance affects payroll, leave affects attendance, and reporting sees all of it without an export.
Modules can be deployed individually if you only need one, but the compounding value is in the shared record. We will tell you honestly if a single module is all you need.
Ownership and cost
Business OS is built for you and deployed on your own infrastructure. There is no per-seat licence, so cost does not scale with headcount — which is the main reason companies move off per-user SaaS once they pass a certain size.
You receive the source code and the data. If you stop working with us, the system keeps running and another team can maintain it. That independence is the point of building rather than subscribing.
Key capabilities
- Interactive Kanban Boards
- Drag-and-drop tasks across "To Do", "In Progress", and "Completed" stages to track status visually.
- Gantt Chart Timelines
- Plan project phases, set task dependencies, and track milestone goals on dynamic timeline charts.
- Secure File Sharing Hub
- Attach project guidelines, design assets, and review files directly to individual task cards.
- Task Allocation Cards
- Assign tasks to team members, set deadlines, add checklists, and record progress updates.
- Milestone Progress Tracker
- Break projects down into phases and track overall completion scores against milestones.
- Workload Planner
- Monitor active task assignments per team member to balance workloads and prevent burnout.
- Client Collaboration Board
- Share secure, read-only project progress dashboards with external clients to keep them updated.
Bring Accountability and Structure to Team Tasks
Unstructured emails and messages cause confusion regarding task ownership and deliverables. Our task management boards assign each task a owner, clear deadline, and detailed comments log.
Bring structure to your hybrid or office operations. Track exact progress on tasks and maintain clean quality logs for every phase.
Gantt Charts and Task Dependencies
Complex projects require coordinated steps where task B cannot start until task A finishes. Our Gantt timeline maps task dependencies clearly, alerting teams about bottlenecks.
Adjust schedules dynamically and see how changes impact overall project launch targets.
Frequently asked questions
- Can we use Project Management on its own?
- Yes. Modules can be deployed individually, though most of the value comes from sharing one employee record across modules — Project Management data flowing straight into payroll, for example, rather than being re-keyed.
- Is there a per-user licence fee?
- No. Business OS is built for you and deployed on your infrastructure, so cost does not scale with headcount the way per-seat SaaS does.
- Can it integrate with what we already use?
- Yes — biometric devices, accounting systems and banking file formats are the usual integrations. We scope them against your existing stack.
- What is project management software?
- It is a tool that organizes tasks, schedules project phases, tracks deadlines, and facilitates team collaboration to hit milestone targets.
- What visual layouts are supported?
- We support Kanban boards, list views, Gantt timelines, and team workload planners.
- Can we invite clients to view projects?
- Yes. You can generate secure, read-only progress views for clients without exposing internal team comments.
- Is there a task checklist option?
- Yes, each task card can hold checklists, attachments, priority tags, and comment threads.
- Can we track time spent on tasks?
- Yes, our built-in time-tracker lets team members log active minutes directly on task cards.