Resource Management

Resource Management helps you to efficiently plan, schedule and allocate resources for your projects. You can manage projects, allocate resources or placeholders, look into resource demands,  check for over allocation and under allocation.

By keeping a tab over the work hours of your team members, you can ensure that resources are better allocated with a balanced load sharing model where no one is under/ over worked. Comparing project timelines and resource availability helps you to churn results faster with efficiency.

How to Access Resource Management?

You can access Resource Management by clicking on Resource Management icon from the vertical left navigation bar.

Resource Management: The People Tab

Using the People Tab in Resource Management, you can find the perfect set of people for your projects. The find availability feature automatically provides suggestions to show available resources. 

The Filter feature lets you look for specific people based on roles, departments, skills and much more.

Add allocations to project timelines with extremely easy user interface which allows you to edit, drag, drop and split timelines!

People Tab: Menu Bar Options

Filter

The filter feature helps you to filter team members or roles according to your requirements.

• Matches: 
  
  The matches selection has two options namely All and Any. 
  
  Select All in case you want to match all the filter conditions to be set. 
  
  Select Any in case you want to display results for any one filter condition that matched.
  
  
  
• Where: 
  
  You can select specific Team Members or Roles that you want to filter.
  
  
  
• Add Filter: 
  
  You can add multiple filters.

Click Done to apply the filter conditions.

Click Clear to exit the filter mode.

Saved Views

Recurring filters can be saved as views for ease of access. To save a filter as a view click on Save view as.

In the New View dialog box, give a name to the view. You can choose to make the view private or public. Click Save to save the view.

To display your view click on the Saved Views Hamburger icon next to filters.

• All Users: Takes you to the default view without any filters applied.
  
  
• My Saved Views: Lists the Saved views marked as private.
  
  
• Shared Views: Lists the Shared views marked as public.

Find Availability

The Find Availability feature allows you look for team member's availabilities based on roles, for a specific time and required hours per day.

Click Find after selecting Start date, End date and Minimum number of hours per day and applying additional filters.

You view Focus mode wherein the availability of the team members is blurred for the rest of the timeline view except for the time duration you chose.

There is a Focus mode toggle button which helps you to enter and exit Focus mode.

To exit the Find availability mode, click on the 'Clear selection x' button next to the selection dates.

Search

The Search button helps you to look for specific Team members.

The Month, Week and Day Views

You can change the view by switching between the time spans that you want to see on the timelines. Switch between Month, Week and Day views.

Zoom in and Zoom out

This filter lets you maximise/ minimise the view and automatically changes timespans between Month, Week and Day view.

Previous/ Next timespan

Allows you to move to the previous/next timespan based on the level of zoom that you are currently on and your current viewing window size.

Today

Clicking on the Today button brings you back to the current date on the timeline.

People Tab: The Team Members Column

The Team members column next to the timeline lists all the team members in your account.

Go to start of Project

Clicking on the 'Go to start of project' icon takes the timeline view to the start date of the corresponding project.

Remove team member from project

To remove a Team member from a specific project, click on the Team member's name and go to the project. Click on More actions > Remove from project.



A warning message pops to ask if you really want to remove the team member from the project. Click Remove.

Placeholders

In cases when the projects are in planning or when you are not sure about the exact team members who will be a part of a project, you can still add Placeholders and replace those with actual Team members later.

Click on Placeholders to view the list of all placeholders. The number next to each placeholder indicates the number of projects that need team members to be allocated.

Find Team Member

The 'Find team member' icon next to each project name under a Placeholder helps you to find and allocate a Team member based on their Role and availability. 

The team member that you select will replace the placeholder.

The 'Find team member' dialog box opens which lists all the team members in the role with their availability mentioned.

You can select a role or search by the team member's name too. Click on the team member to select and click Add.



The placeholder will be replaced by the selected team member's name.

More Actions for Placeholders

Edit placeholder

'Edit placeholder' allows you to change the placeholder name.

Note: This option is disabled for the default placeholders.

Remove Placeholder

The 'Remove placeholder' option allows you to remove the placeholder from your account.


To read more about how to effectively manage your team's capacity, click here.

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