Role usage

Applications for the Role usage:

• Display of the project's demand for resources in the form of roles.
• Resource allocation from the perspective of roles.
• Calculation of the utilization of every single role.
• Calculation of the total efforts for and total costs of every single role.
• Visualisation of the assignation of roles within activities.

You can use the Role usage for the following:

• Assign selected activities to a role.
• Analyse the role utilization by help of filter settings.
• Change the timescale.
• Quick access to the resource pool.

Context menu in the Role usage

• Expand/collapse all roles – Depending on the preferred view, you can expand/collapse all roles.
• Show maximum per time unit – The maximum required number of personnel resources for each of the roles / qualifications per day, week, etc.
• Show average per time unit – The average required number of personnel resources for each of the roles / qualifications per day, week, etc.
• Show effort per time unit – Planned effort in employee hours (or employee days, respectively) per day, week, etc.
• Group by roles – Presents the qualifications belonging to a role in one row with total utilization.
• Place activities in one row, if possible - Displays the activities done by one role in one row, if possible.
  For better presentation, activities overlapping in time are shown in separate rows.
• Display in reference to subprojects - The role utilization is not shown for the overall project, but for each of the subprojects separately. However, only those subprojects are considered that are on the level immediately below the overall project.
• Sort roles – All displayed roles can be sorted along number, name or code.
• Sort activities – All displayed activities can be sorted along number, start date and finish date.
• Unhide total utilization - Total utilization for all roles in the project per day, week, etc.
• Additional resource diagram – You can view an additional resource diagram in the lower area of the bar diagram.
• Additional break-even chart – You can view an additional break-even chart in the lower area of the bar diagram.