The question is always the same: who can take on the next project. It gets answered from the gut, because workload, holidays and open tasks sit in three different places.
The HRM plugin brings those three together. It shows who a team can count on in the coming weeks.
How it works day to day
- Store working hours. Weekly working hours per person, part time included. This is the reference for everything else.
- Estimate effort. Issues get an estimated effort. Without an estimate there is no workload figure, and that is the only preparation needed.
- Include absences. Holidays and other absences reduce the available time automatically, because they live in the same plugin.
- Look at the workload. The resource view shows per person and week how much is planned and how much capacity is left. Over- and underload are visible.
What changes
- Committing to a new project rests on figures instead of a feeling.
- Holidays show up during planning, before the date is fixed.
- Permanent overload becomes visible, as an indication of too few resources and not as a judgement of a person.
What the plugin does not do
It is not time management. There is no overtime account, values are recalculated on every view and not stored. If the working time calendar changes, historical values change with it.
Which functions the Redmine HRM plugin brings along and what it costs is described on the product page.