Project Resource Management
Enterprise Resource Management Software to utilize Project Resources Judiciously
Deskera Resource Management is a key aspect of project management that enables you to manage resources efficiently by tracking their progress, highlighting allocation issues and relating this information to the overall status of the project. To be precise, it enables you to efficiently and effectively deploy your organization's resources when they are needed.
With Resource Management, one can assign resources to tasks and adjust assignments to resolve allocation conflicts, manage finances by assigning budgets to projects and programs, and track resource usage against budgets and monitor cash flows through user defined parameters, and more.
Resource management is one of the critical functions of any project. Project managers not only need to track project completion status and deliverables, but also ensure that resources are being utilized in the desired manner. Deskera's Project Resource Management feature makes this task simpler as you can easily assign resources to tasks and adjust assignments to resolve allocation conflicts. Finances can be managed by assigning budgets to projects and programs.
Key Features of Resource Management
Manage Project Members:
Invite members, define roles, assign tasks and responsibilities. All information relating to project members appears on the manager's dashboard, allowing him or her to monitor activities and assign tasks with minimal clicks.
Add/Edit Resource Details:
Manage resources in the project by creating new resources and filling in details like name and type of resources, the cost associated with the resource and assigning it a unique color code.
Manage Resource Conflict:
Monitor resource conflict which arises when more than a single resource is assigned to two or more tasks at one time. Resolve resource conflict by either assigning it to other members or by changing the task schedule.
Track Resource Cost:
By defining and allocating activity cost, resource usage can be tracked against budgets, and cash flows can be monitored using comprehensive workload reports.
Key Benefits of Resource Management
- Ensure clarity in project goals using Project Resource Management tools such as colour coding, comments, marking and more.
- Resolve resource conflicts easily by assigning project tasks to some other resource or changing the project task schedule.
- Save time and costs involved in a project through effective resource management.
- Forecast resource requirements through a complete view of all resources and corresponding tasks.
Additional Features of Resource Management
- Assign unique color codes to a resource and the resource will be subsequently highlighted with that color in all related tasks.
- View the cost(s) associated with the resources.
- View overtime cost(s) associated with the resources.
- Mark the resource either billable or unbillable depending on the cost involved in them.