Project Workforce Management

If your organization manages projects, and applies workforce efforts to those projects, you need project workforce management software.  That's a mouthful.  But it really just comes down to keeping track of both your projects and employees who work on them.  Our product, Standard Time, addresses project workforce management in the areas below.  We'll discuss each in this article.  But, we can also schedule a live discussion, if you prefer.  Or, feel free to download Standard Time to try them out.

1. Projects allocated over many teams
2. Resources assigned to multiple projects
3. Task schedules and allocation
4. Project, phase, and task costs
5. Client receivables
6. Salary requirements

Project Workforce Management

Projects allocated over many teams
Let's face it, you've got a big enough organization that your projects span multiple teams.  Some projects are strategic, some in-house, and some administrative.  A good project workforce management product lets you manage these effectively.  Teams should see their own projects, corporate-wide projects, and admin projects.

Resources assigned to multiple projects
Team members may be assigned to multiple projects and tasks.  This makes their work relevant in Standard Time.  They don't see projects and tasks belonging to others (unless they have special rights).  A lot of workforce management springs from these resource assignments, including resource allocation.

Task schedules and allocation
Each employee has projects and tasks they are responsible for.  As a manager, you need tools to help you see those resource allocations.  They help you effectively manage the workforce under you.  See the exhaustive resource allocation dialog in Standard Time for charts and grids containing hours and forecasts.

Project, phase, and task costs
Every project has client and salary costs.  For that matter, every phase within each project has it's own costs.  And, each task.  That gets deep!  Standard Time manages eight cost values for every task, phase, and project.  You see them at-a-glance, in a dashboard view.

Client receivables
Client receivables are part of the project costs calculated in each task, phase, and project.  They tell you forecasted amounts, actual amounts earned, and remaining amounts.  You'll track each project down to the dollar, euro, or pound.

Salary requirements
Do you pay your employees?  Of course.  And, you have a payroll system to handle that.  But, do you know how much salary is burned on each project?  How about for phase 1, 2, and 3?  Standard Time tracks it down to the task, and all that rolls up all the way to the project level.

Schedule a demo
This can be a lot to deal with.  You're probably already dealing with a lot of it, but may not have the ideal tools.  Consider setting up a personal demo with one of our specialists.  They can walk you through the tough issues.  Good luck!