Resource Management

Gain Visibility into All Resource Demands

Employees are the most valuable asset and the biggest expense for most organizations. The ability to deploy employees effectively against often conflicting projects and other work priorities enables organizations to optimize their return on human resource investments. In order to maximize both task throughput and company morale, resource and project managers need an efficient system to place the appropriate staff on the right teams at the right time.

EPM Live provides visibility into resource demands across the organization so functional managers can make staffing decisions to support corporate goals and objectives. Understand which projects and types of work are consuming your most valuable resources and effectively realign your staffing plan based on changing priorities and budgets. Get the most from your most valuable resources and quickly correct critical path tasks that are overdue by assigning resources based on skill requirements and level of proficiency.

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Gain Greater Control of Project Resources
With Office Project, you can easily assign resources to tasks and adjust their assignments to resolve conflicts and over-allocations.
Manage Resources on Any Work Item
With EPM Live's SharePoint-based Resource Tools, you can easily assign resources to any SharePoint work item and then adjust their assignments based on over-allocations.
Resource Planning Across All Work
By combining resource workload on both project and non-project work in a single dynamic view, resource managers have a true picture of resource loading. With EPM Live's Resource Planner, view Resource Workload across any SharePoint list (All Work), view Resource Availability by Scalable Time-phase, perform What-If Analysis on Resource Workload and Availability, and group resources by Attributes (Department, Skills, Roles, etc.).
Resource Capacity Planning
Provide your team with an easy way to create resource plans and view resource capacity constraints across all work within the organization.
Resource Reporting
Provide your team with an online report and view resource workload across the organization.

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 provides more advanced Resource Management capabilities to help you build long term staffing strategies. A central enterprise pool allows you to manage resource calendars, availability, and skill sets. Integration with EPM live and Microsoft Office Project Server gives users the following resource management capabilities:

Skill Based Resourcing
With the Build Team from Enterprise feature, project managers can quickly and easily staff their projects based on the availability of resources; the match between resource skills and the skill requirements of the project.
Resource Workload and Availability
The Resource Center enables users to view, modify, and analyze resource information across projects and workgroups. Graphical displays of resource availability give immediate insight into overall team capacity so you can manage your portfolio with current information about your team’s availability. On the same page, you can view details about individual resource availability and task assignment by time-period.
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