LPM® manages the availability of resources that can be affected to multiple projects. Tool calculates a reliable, optimized and realistic planning.
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Resources are the persons working on the project activities.
A resource can also be a group of persons (team) for which you do not want to manage individual detail.
You can manage this through the capacity of the resource, that can be greater than 1 (for a group of people) or less than 1 (for a person working part-time) .
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The first step is to affect each resource to the projects on which it has to work, specifying the affectation rate (% of maximum weekly time spent on this project).
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Then you can assign resources to project activities .
This means that some work is defined on this activity for the resource.
Only the resources affected to the project of the activity can be assigned to the activity.
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To manage off days, you have a global calendar.
This calendar can be split into multiple calendars, to manage distinct availability types :
⇒ you can create a calendar “80% ” with every Wednesday as off day
⇒ you can manage distinct holidays when working with international teams.
Each resource is then assigned to a calendar.
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Resources enter their time spent on the Real work allocation screen .
This allows for a real-time monitoring of work.
Moreover, updating the left work allows to recalculate the planning taking into account the actual progress on each task.