Resource Planning for Large Professional Services Firms

Maconomy People Planner provides a complete cloud-based project resource management solution to help you gain insight into capacity for effective resource planning to improve enterprise-wide utilization. People Planner delivers accurate plans that consider project budgets, internal and external resource needs, time frames and available capacity—providing the agility to handle scope changes with a clear understanding of the impact to the people and projects flowing through your organization.

Features

• Quickly target over/under utilization - List and group resources at level required to support your focus - Select summarized data by day, week, month or year - Customizable color coding provides instant insights into areas for attention
• Integrated Project Planning and Resourcing - A clear graphical depiction of your project plans, including full work breakdown structure - All key project, task and resource information consolidated into a single workspace - View capacity alongside the plan to assign available resources and see resource capacity updated in real time
• Intelligent Skill-based Staffing - View the skills required to effectively complete a task and add additional requirements - Automatically find resources that meet all, one or more of the criteria - Continue to plan until all requirements are met by the assigned talent
• Dynamic Booking Options - A vast range of ways to semi-automatically enter bookings into the system to quickly allocate budgets - Book multiple resources at the same time - Select fixed number of hours, book to a percentage or full capacity, or evenly allocate
• Employee Self-Management - MyPlan component to inform employees of their work assignments - Absence integration to instantly update capacity based on approved leave - Assisted timesheet entry with information of assignments to simplify registration

Benefits

• **Complete Visibility: **Do away with disparate planning tools and local spreadsheets to take advantage of one unified view of your entire resource pool.
• **Accurate Project Planning: **Create project plans, track progress and take action based on facts as opposed to guesstimates.
• **Optimize Capacity: **A real-time overview of capacity provides short-term insights to balance workload and long-term visibility to support your pipeline.