Resource Planning

DPS provides powerful, yet easy to use, applications that support your project planning and resource management activities.

Those applications deliver these primary capabilities:
  • Project Planning: Project managers can assign employees and generic labor resources, expense types, and consultant types to their projects in the Projects hub and schedule those assignments. They can also enter planned hours for labor resources and planned monetary amounts for expenses and consultants.
  • Resource Management: Resource managers can use Resource View to make sure that their employees are assigned to projects, correctly scheduled, and fully utilized. Project managers can use Project View to get a complete view of staffing and schedules for their projects at any level of the work breakdown structure.
  • Opportunity Planning: Project managers assigned to opportunities can begin labor planning for opportunities before the contract is awarded and a project is set up. Once the project is created for a new contract, they can copy all or selected portions of the opportunity plan to the project.
  • Plan Reporting: The DPS desktop application provides a set of reports for reviewing your plans and tracking actual performance against those plans.

Related Topics:

  • Project Planning
    In Plan mode in the Projects hub, you can assign employees and generic labor resources, expense types, and consultant types to projects, schedule those assignments, and enter planned hours or monetary amounts.
  • Resource Management
    The Resource Management feature offers two powerful applications that support the labor management efforts of both resource managers and project managers.
  • Opportunity Planning
    Project managers can begin labor planning for opportunities even before the contract is awarded and a formal project is set up. Once the project is created for a new contract, they can copy all or selected portions of the opportunity plan to the project plan.
  • Planning Reports
    DPS planning reports offer multiple views of your project plans and employee assignments. Project managers, team leaders, and other managers in your enterprise can use these reports to review historical, forecast, and performance data by project plan or by resource.
Parent Topic: Concepts