Wishlist

Deployment planning at project level is already working very well in Projo and will be significantly better with the upcoming, revised deployment planning. However, there is also a need to carry out deployment planning not only on a project basis, but also across the office — in the form of scenarios, without employees being able to immediately see these considerations. Because this often leads to uncertainty that might not even be necessary. We, @Arne, had already talked about this before. However, even I had not yet been able to formulate as clearly as I would like it to be and what requirements we would have in doing so. Here are our thoughts: • The list of projects/deployment planning per employee shows what percentage of these are currently planned in projects. This allows you to see when someone becomes available. • In our opinion, this list should be able to designate people for projects without already including them in the actual deployment planning. In other words, you should be able to determine which project you want to use someone for and then specify the period and percentage value. • When this is done, the list should show for which period of time and for which project you have planned someone. • It would be helpful if projo would then also forecast the expected result at the end of each month with the new planned person. • If you have created such a scenario for all employees, it would be great if you could save it — so that you can test, recall and update different variants. • The actual deployment planning is then carried out — after consultation with employees and project managers — in the respective project. And even then, as before, it will be visible to employees themselves in projo. I know that is no small wish and certainly not easy to implement — especially since employees in offices are often booked on several projects at the same time. But from our point of view, this function would usefully improve the “brand core” and expand the range of functions so that you would no longer have to use your own tables or similar tools.

It should be possible to eject deployment planning and/or deployment planning views (projects, employees, next week, project employees) like the rest of the lists.

Our part-time employees have the problem that when they call up their deployment planning, it does not show the overload in%, but in the attached example, it is 61% or 48% for the next 2 weeks. In the admin view, however, it shows 105% or 129% for the next 2 weeks. As a result, this employee is actually overworked. However, the employees think that they are underworked according to the deployment planning in Projo. In Projo, the 105% and 129% of their overview should also be displayed for part-time employees, and not different utilization percentages for one and the same person in software.

Employees in the personal sector should be able to apply to their project management for changes to the individual capacities. Example: My project manager has scheduled me on Project X with 50% capacity next week, but I know that I will need a maximum of 20%. I click on 50%, change it to 20% and my PL receives a notification to allow or deny it.

For the years from the year after next, projo currently only shows one column per year. This is a bit too rough, especially for longer-term projects. It should be possible to open at least quarters here

Graphical deployment planning currently only shows the future. It would be nice if you could also “open up” the past. The freestyle would be a parallel presentation of target and actual in a timeline.

It would simplify controlling if, in personnel deployment planning, you could also see how many hours were actually booked for which project, i.e. a target/actual comparison.

It would be nice if there was an additional “Project manager” column under Projects in the personal area. This allows colleagues who are not approved for the office sector to see who they need to contact.

We have a project with 5 contracts (a quarter is being developed, there are new residential buildings, new parking garage buildings, renovations, etc.). In deployment planning, colleagues only see that they are scheduled for this district project, but not how much for which contract. So they don't know which contract is their priority. In this case, I find it useful to be able to plan not only the project in deployment planning, but also the contracts. And that this planning is then also shown to employees according to how many hours are available to them per contract.

In Projo, contract deadlines can be defined in the overview tab. It would be very helpful for planning if these were displayed in deployment planning.