Many of our Tempus Resource customers use a combination of Agile, operational, and waterfall-type project planning methods. With these complex planning processes, people are both assigned directly to projects and assigned to work through the team they are part of. Our customers need to be able to plan their resources the same way they plan their projects. Tempus Resource’s Team Resource is made up of individual, named resources with their percentage of inclusion on the team and story point defined for each one.

A Team Resource within Tempus Resource is an assignable team made up of individual people and their quantifiable inclusion on the team. In a resource management tool like Tempus Resource, a team is defined by the people who are on the team and their individual percentage or story point of effort on that team for the duration that they are on the team. This team can then be assigned to a project or epic with the FTE, hours, or cost required for the work. By using a Team Resource in your resource planning, you can see a more complete picture into your teams’ assignments and availability.

Typically in Agile planning, teams are assigned to tasks within sprints using story points and velocity. This is a great way to see who is responsible for what work, and there are many tools available to help with this task view. For resource management, leaders need to see the availability of a team – beyond the task assignments. Tempus Resource’s new Team Resource is flexible to fit into real world project management, understanding that people can be both part of a team and also allocated to work individually.

To be successful at resource management, it is important to understand the realities of your projects and how they are planned. With a Team Resource, resource managers and project managers can speak the same language and move forward confidently with plans.

ProSymmetry, a global leader in resource portfolio management, provides resource management solutions to large enterprises including many Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies with its proprietary platform Tempus Resource. Tempus Resource, recently named in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting, is a purpose-built resource forecasting and capacity planning solution for strategic business decisions. With capabilities including bulk resource forecasting, skills and talent management, portfolio and resource capacity reporting, and interactive scenario planning and what-if analysis, Tempus gives organizations actionable intelligence and cutting-edge analytics.