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Workforce Management ?

  • 20-08-2010 2:41pm
    #1
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Hi,

    Today I find myself managing a team of 30 engineers working for a European telecoms company and I have inherited a lot of different time tracking / project management tools from previous managers.
    What I would like to do is bin them all and concentrate on just 1 or possible 2 tools.

    My needs are the following:

    I wish to enter a list of all people in my team and if possible associate them with a certain skill (French speker, IPT expert, etc...).

    I also wish to enter a list of deals which have been won and associate them with the amount of time that that deal/project is due to run for.

    Now I can associate certain people with certain projects and see for what projects I don't have enough resources and for what people I don't have any work for. All this would be nice if it was in a graphical form.
    So that then my boss looks at my request to employee more people I need to be able to quickly show what everyone is assigned to, what they are going to be doing for the next 3+ months and the projects for which we don't have any available resources.


    Can anyone tell me the name of a tool that would allow me to do this? WFM probably isn't what I'm after as it brings up call center-type tools which would be used by the employees themselves while I'm looking for something that would only be used by me :)

    Thanks for any help you can offer....


Comments

  • #2
    niall1976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭niall1976


    Hi ,

    This sounds relatively straightforward as it feels like a database application.

    You could easily use an MS access wizard to manage this and run any type of graphical chart directly from the database.

    A student could write the database relatively cheap if its something you haven't done before. You just need to be really clear about what information you want to put in by mapping out the headingts for each piece of information and then spec what you want your reports to look like.

    Cheers ,
    Niall


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