Resource Allocation Features and Functions
Finding and allocating the right resources for a project is a difficult task for project managers. Project management tools schedule tasks, assign work to resources, and track time in large projects.
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- Management of task assignments, resource availability, roles, and rates
- Resource profiles that include skill levels, certifications, training, education, and travel in order to find the right person for the job
- Resource planning across both internal and external users
- Skill-based and availability-based resource location
- CV and resume storage
- Resource skill searching
- Optimization of resource use across multiple projects
- Identification of redundant resources
- Assignment of resources in multiple jobs
- Employee timesheet tracking, including project manager approval
- Task lists for every single team member that show their assigned tasks
- Multiple resource allocation to tasks
- Ability to find resources based on skills and availability
- Ability to view resource over- and under-utilization across projects
- Drill down graphical reports
- Resource booking and allocation to projects
- Resource loading and allocation reporting
- Cross-project resource allocation
- Recording and incorporation of planned absences and sickness into schedules
- Configurable look-ups for resource profiles
- Resource allocation and tracking at the project and company levels
- Resource replacements
- Integrated resource scheduling
- Milestones
- Resource histograms
- Resource scheduling and leveling for time-limited or resource-limited schedules
- Resource breakdown structures for resource organization by department, pool, or skill
- Option to assign resources automatically based on the availability and the definition of pool or skill required
- User-defined priority rules
- Ability to handle normal, consumable, and perishable resources
- Non-human resource time and allocation management
- Multiple user-definable sort and view options
- Ability to load the timesheet with allocated activities
- Global time reporting per period
- Group allocation of multiple resources
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Resource Planning and Scheduling Features and Functions
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