Integrated project planning and management application

An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to tangibly store instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

• receive a selection of a project in an integrated project planning and management application;
• based on the selected project, retrieve one or more enterprise project data elements associated with the project from a data store and display the retrieved enterprise project data elements on a first user interface associated with the integrated project planning and management application;
• receive a selection of the at least one displayed enterprise project data element and activate a planning model to instantiate an associated spreadsheet workbook;
• display data corresponding to the selected enterprise project data element within the instantiated spreadsheet workbook;
• receive an input to modify the displayed data corresponding to the enterprise project data element;
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• generate the plan to execute the project based on the modified data corresponding to the enterprise project data element.

A computer implemented system to generate a plan to execute a project, comprising:

• a processor operable to read and execute instructions stored in one or more memory elements;
• a user input device to select a project stored in a data store;
• a project management engine to retrieve one or more enterprise project data elements from the data store based on the selected project;
• an output device to display the retrieved enterprise project data elements on a first user interface;
• the user input device to select the at least one displayed enterprise project data element and activate a planning engine to instantiate a second user interface;
• the output device to display the data corresponding to the selected enterprise project data element on the second user interface;
• the user input device to modify the displayed data corresponding to the selected enterprise project data element;
• the one or more memory elements storing instructions related to:
• generating the plan to execute the project, based on the modified data corresponding to the selected enterprise project data element.