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Software Project Management

Notes members to business goals, projects and individual tasks is simple and easy with our PMI
and PMBOK Guide compliant solution. Mass assign team members’ tasks grouped by skill set,
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department or resource type, or handle resource allocation management for a single person. It
is equally simple to change a resource on a set of project tasks as well.
Our portfolio system allows resource allocation managers and project managers to use project
level and/or cross project resource allocation to manage workloads in order to achieve their
goals. The software application reports evenly divide the work (hours) among the workdays
(duration) scheduled for the tasks to calculate the total work or effort assigned to a resource
within a specified date range.

Efficient Resource Allocation and Workload Management

Resource information may be accessed from the ‘Resources’ tab within a project to review the
availability of resources. Project Insight, web project management software provides real-time
resource allocation data based on the allocation of their assignments to project tasks system-
wide.
Project managers can also view all resources across all projects in Project Insight. This information
is accessed in ‘My Reports,’ ‘Cross Project Resource Allocation.’ Data may be hidden or displayed
according to each person’s preferences, supporting a wide variety of applications for these
reports. Hundreds of permutations of resource allocation reports are available.
Other project management software applications claim to have extensive resource allocation
capabilities in their marketing materials; however, they often fall short. Project Insight not only
allows resource managers or project managers to see the total workload each resource has per
day, week or other time period, it allows them to drill down on all of the projects and tasks that
are causing the over allocation in one view. Tasks can easily be reassigned using Project Insight’s
simple drag and drop functionality. It’s perfect for the management of all kinds of goals, tasks
and projects including IT projects, interactive or marketing projects, product development projects,
professional services and more. All tasks are efficiently managed with proper resource allocation
and tracking, down to the last detail.

Notes If your goal is to make sure that you’re on top of resource allocation, then Project
Insight’s powerful resource management applications will make it happen.

11.2 Identifying Resource Requirements

As you plan for application compatibility testing, keep in mind the future state of your computing
environment. Are you planning to upgrade some of your software to versions that fully use new
Windows 2000 features? Are you planning to implement new standard desktop configurations
or use Terminal Services? Issues such as these determine the resources that are required and the
applications that are to be tested as a suite.
If you plan to deploy new applications with Windows 2000 during the rollout, test these
applications with the current applications.
You can facilitate testing by setting up a lab where testers can conduct their tests. In such a
lab, you can have the necessary tools and equipment available at all times. Some organizations
have a lab for testing applications that is separate from the Windows 2000 lab. If you do not
have the budget for a separate lab, you might share a lab with another project or with
training. If you share a lab, try to choose one that has compatible scheduling and equipment
requirements.

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