Project Managers and team leaders
Resource plans are an effective way of capturing the key elements for requesting and allocating colleagues time and tracking their effort/cost. Requesters can create resource plans that specify a team or an individual required for project tasks. A resource manager/team leader can then view their availability and make allocations based on team or individual availability.
Resource reporting
Reports provide resource requesters and team leaders with visibility of resource allocations, availability and utilisation.
Diagram 1 below illustrates the availability of a colleague or team per month, in hours. Any shade of green suggests some availability, if amber or red, the resource in question has limited or no availability.
Diagram 2 below illustrates the forecasting of resource availability by individual or team, per month in percentages. As you can see some amber suggests possible over commitment in places.
Diagram 3 below illustrates a particular project report, identifying how much time that project has taken for the two colleagues involved. During November, the project took up 38% and 72% respectively and into December the time spent reduces.