Teams and Resource Allocations
Based on some experimentation it seems the following is true:
If I create a sub-team, but do NOT create a seperate timeline for that team, then I can only allocate a resource to the parent team timeline of course.
However, the resource will always show NO Work Time left in the plan view for the sub-team, presumably because there is no allocation to the sub-team, because there is no timeline to allocate the sub-team to, as it uses the parent team timeline.
The reason that this is important is that our firm has grouped a bunch of strategic initiatives into teams, but each of those teams will have sub-projects under it. The subprojects will basically have the same resources as the parent project. I'm am trying to avoid having to define timelines for each sub-team, and the need to allocate time to each of the subteams. I just want to allocation to be at the parent level.Am I correct in the paragraph above that the system design requires each subteam have its own timeline in order to show that the resource has work time availaable?
If I create a sub-team, but do NOT create a seperate timeline for that team, then I can only allocate a resource to the parent team timeline of course.
However, the resource will always show NO Work Time left in the plan view for the sub-team, presumably because there is no allocation to the sub-team, because there is no timeline to allocate the sub-team to, as it uses the parent team timeline.
The reason that this is important is that our firm has grouped a bunch of strategic initiatives into teams, but each of those teams will have sub-projects under it. The subprojects will basically have the same resources as the parent project. I'm am trying to avoid having to define timelines for each sub-team, and the need to allocate time to each of the subteams. I just want to allocation to be at the parent level.Am I correct in the paragraph above that the system design requires each subteam have its own timeline in order to show that the resource has work time availaable?
2 answers
You can allocate a resource to a specific team area.
So you can have multiple teams on the same timeline, and have separate
resource allocations for each user against each team area associated
with that timeline.
And starting in 3.0, you can make that resource assignment
date-sensitive ... i.e. Joe is workining 30% on team X and 70% on team Y
from Jan-Feb, and then 50% on team X and 50% on team Z Mar-June.
Cheers,
Geoff
On 12/14/2010 6:23 PM, adefarlo wrote:
So you can have multiple teams on the same timeline, and have separate
resource allocations for each user against each team area associated
with that timeline.
And starting in 3.0, you can make that resource assignment
date-sensitive ... i.e. Joe is workining 30% on team X and 70% on team Y
from Jan-Feb, and then 50% on team X and 50% on team Z Mar-June.
Cheers,
Geoff
On 12/14/2010 6:23 PM, adefarlo wrote:
Based on some experimentation it seems the following is true:
If I create a sub-team, but do NOT create a seperate timeline for that
team, then I can only allocate a resource to the parent team timeline
of course.
However, the resource will always show NO Work Time left in the plan
view for the sub-team, presumably because there is no allocation to
the sub-team, because there is no timeline to allocate the sub-team
to, as it uses the parent team timeline.
The reason that this is important is that our firm has grouped a bunch
of strategic initiatives into teams, but each of those teams will have
sub-projects under it. The subprojects will basically have the same
resources as the parent project. I'm am trying to avoid having to
define timelines for each sub-team, and the need to allocate time to
each of the subteams. I just want to allocation to be at the parent
level.Am I correct in the paragraph above that the system design
requires each subteam have its own timeline in order to show that the
resource has work time availaable?