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Planing human resources in project

Hi,

I'm currently evaluating OpenProject as project management tool for our company which allows management planing as well as an agile approach within the same project. So far it suits quite well on multiple levels.

However, I didn't find yet a way to plan human resources within the project. I added mutliple person to my project and integrated them into groups (which are my different teams). Now I'd like to see what time-budget my team has each week. So when I'm planing a big feature and estimate X hours/days/weeks/months of effort, I'd like to see when it'll be finished if the allocated team is working on it.

Is it possible to do this within OpenProject (even in the Enterprise Version)? I only found a 2 years old comment stating that resource planing is not yet supported in OpenProject. Is it still like that?

Thank you for your help and information.

Best Regards,

Manuel Ott

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RE: Planing human resources in project - Added by Daniel Staifer over 6 years ago

I'm coming from MS Project and I'm also recently evaluating OpenProject. I just found your post and I think I have similar questions to add regarding resource planning.

I can create resource groups as a work team globally, assign them to a project and to its tasks subsequently. The question is, given the fact that projects can share assignees but they may not be in the same group between projects, can I create groups within and specific to a project? There is also the fact that a project admin should able to create groups within projects he administrates without having access to OpenProject administration panel.
Due to the fact that I'm used to MS Project and if I understood correctly, in a OpenProject's task I have date as duration, assignee as work unit and estimate time as work. I also see calendars as a way to control the days and how many hours in a day assignees can work, witch impacts the duration of tasks. I'm not evaluating enterprise version, but it seems that those attributes are not linked to each other like the formula "Duration = Work/assignment Units" and it's totally up to who is creating and managing the task to make sense of that. Is this correct or there is another approach I'm not seeing?

For me, knowing the duration of a work package and like @Manuel Ott said is to know when it will end, so new work packages can be planned in OpenProject itself having workers availability in mind.

Thanks in advance for this great software!

RE: Planing human resources in project - Added by Manuel Ott over 6 years ago

Hi,

I'm still currious if it's possible to plan human resources as I try to do. Can anybody give me a hint how to do it or even tell me if it's possible to use OpenProject in that matter?

Thank you and best regards,