capacity planning

Rillsoft Project's capacity planning addresses the question of how to best plan your project resources and administer them in a time-saving and flexible way. The program supports you with numerous functions and helps you in evaluating resource-related data. The function "capacity alignment" supports you with a comprehensive set of functions in the essential aligning of resource requirements with the existing capacity. Clearly arranged views show you all the key planning parameter at a glance. Rillsoft Project's capacity planning allows you to quickly and precisely plan, monitor and control all resources, thereby taking advantage of the following functions:

Free capacities and utilizations of roles and employees can be assessed at any point in time.
Processes causing utilizations can be defined and leeway be checked and evaluated within an existing buffer time.
Shortfalls caused by personnel shortages can be precisely calculated and are easily detectable by a red colouring.
Excesses caused by free capacities can also be calculated and are marked by a blue colouring.
The capacity alignment can be graphically analysed.

Companies usually assign resources in several projects simultaneously. The collecting and presenting of data from several projects and company resources is at the core of resource management software. Rillsoft Project allows you to visualise and analyse data from several different projects. In addition, you can evaluate and optimise resource utilization altogether. Rillsoft Project's project portfolio affords the presentation and analysis of randomly selected projects sharing one resource pool. Project prioritisation provides the basis for the capacity alignment of resources included in the project portfolio. You are free to define both category and status as well as sort and group together the projects included in the project portfolio at your option. All occurring tasks can be completed by way of the project portfolio, as if they were located in the individual projects:

time scheduling for all projects included in the portfolio
capacity planning software by taking into account the resources already assigned to other projects
assists you in accomplishing the best possible utilization of all resources

A variance analysis included in the portfolio checks every project against its own, specifically defined baseline.