We automate project management.

Welcome to Frontier

Most project management software on the market today is either inadequate to the needs of the enterprise or overly complicated and difficult to use. Lakeway Frontier doesn't just simplify or add features to existing solutions. Frontier changes the game.

We know project management is hard. It's a constant time-consuming challenge to figure out exactly what everyone should be doing now, to know if all projects are on track and on budget, to develop realistic estimates of when things will be done.

We've rethought project management from the ground up, designing a methodology and a tool for supporting it that automates all this for you. Our algorithms enable you to align individuals' work with the organization's goals by automatically prioritizing tasks and scheduling them so everyone always knows what they should be doing. Our streamlined tracking keeps you constantly and almost effortlessly up to date on progress towards your goals.

And when things change, Frontier responds instantly, recalculating schedules and communicating status to keep your project portfolio up to date and aligned.

Value-Based Scheduling

We've spent years researching and developing our proprietary scheduling engine, a revolutionary technology that uses product value data you already have to automatically prioritize and schedule work. No other tool can do this.

When faced with competing demands, everyone in an organization should work on what is most important to the organization. The problem is that it's almost impossible to prioritize all of an organization's tasks, especially when they span multiple projects, people, groups, and often geographic locations.

Frontier automates this process for you. By computing the value of every task across every project, Frontier is able to prioritize and schedule all tasks—for everyone, everywhere, in your organization.

One of Frontier's greatest strengths is its powerful flexibility in managing change. If new projects are added, tasks take longer than anticipated, or a project's value or target date shifts, the value-based scheduling algorithm instantly figures out the impact. It automatically reschedules activity, realigns work to new priorities, and communicates the change to everyone affected.

Load Balancing

Load balancing a single project by hand can be a challenging puzzle. Doing this for a dozen projects with a dozen stakeholders can be a nightmare, especially as priorities shift. Frontier's advanced technology does this for you automatically and continuously. Frontier automatically schedules lower priority work out, keeping your top level projects fully staffed across your entire portfolio.

Frontier constantly ensures that resources are not overloaded, so you can be confident that the completion dates you commit to are as accurate as possible for all projects in your portfolio. Frontier's approach to load balancing gives you a valuable tool in your decision-making arsenal. When your staff is properly loaded, you have a far more useful view of your team's status. Instead of seeing how much your team is overloaded, you see which projects are running late and can have the right conversations and make informed decisions.

Workflows

Workflows are key to consistent execution, but in most tools, they aren't integrated deeply enough, if at all. In Frontier, workflows aren't just pictures, they're live, interactive building blocks. They let you define project dependencies quickly and easily. They're at the core of our scheduling engine.

Frontier integrates workflows throughout projects, assignments, and scheduling, and automatically sets up task dependencies. As people update effort spent and effort left for their tasks, the workflows are instantly updated. You can always view who's on deck and when your task is likely to start.

Tracking

Frontier lets you see where you are and where you're headed with more accuracy and less overhead than any other tool. Frontier was designed to make tracking projects easy. Once your workflows are set up, all it takes is two simple pieces of information—"effort spent" and "effort left"—to track everything and keep your organization aligned. Effort spent and effort left. That's it. Frontier computes everything else for you.

Frontier generates burndown curves and predicts if the total cost of a project will exceed its budget. Frontier anticipates when tasks are likely to start for each person and when they'll be done. Frontier constantly estimates and updates finish dates for each project in your portfolio so you always see the current status of your entire project portfolio. Why spend dozens of man-hours per week trying to figure this out when Frontier can continuously perform the analyses for you?

If something is running late or is projected to go over budget, you see this early, so there's time to react. Frontier shows you where the holdups are and helps you figure out what you can do about them.

Communication & Collaboration

Frontier automates communication for you, letting it happen organically as a side-effect of work. Whenever you update task effort or product value, Frontier instantly adjusts the prioritized work schedule, generates realtime status updates and analysis, and communicates the results across your organization.

Frontier also streamlines collaboration throughout your organization. Frontier's workflows and value-based scheduling structure and prioritize work across functions. Since everyone works from the same integrated plan, you see the status of work affecting yours even when it's assigned to other groups, and handoffs between groups are seamless. When you need to communicate with others about work, Frontier's collaborative tools locate these discussions where they're natural, alongside the relevant updates.

By keeping everyone working on priorities and aware of progress, by communicating not just the fact of a change but the impact of that change to everyone instantaneously, Frontier takes the place of much of the work of communication, letting you focus on what's important. With Frontier, you'll spend less time figuring out where you are and more time moving forward.