Sick time

A

Amy

Everyone,

Should I track sick time in Project Server? If so, what is
the best way? I do not want resources to feel like this is
keeping tabs on resources.

Thank you
Eric
 
L

Lon Swain

You can add a category for sick time in "Nonproject
Time". Keeping tabs on your resources is pretty much what
you do for a living if you're a PM.
 
D

Dale Howard

Amy --

An approach that I personally recommend is to ask those involved in the
project management environment (mainly team members and project managers) to
report all sick leave to the Resource Pool administrator. Obviously, sick
leave is an "after the fact" situtation which won't get reported until the
employee gets back to work, but it will still impact the project schedule
since no actual work would be reported for the time period the person was
ill.

Once a sick leave incident is reported to the Resource Pool Administrator,
he/she should open the Enteprise Resource Pool and open the resource
reporting the sick leave. The Resource Pool administrator can then
double-click on the resource's name in the Resource Sheet view and enter the
sick leave as non-working time on that resource's personal calendar. I also
recommend as a best practice that each non-working time period (vacation and
sick leave) should be documented with a short Note to explain why the person
was absent from work.

Once the Enterprise Resource Pool is saved, any project manager opening a
project in which the particular resource is assigned will see a schedule
change in their project for any dates during which the person was sick. In
any environment where sick leave is handled as I recommend, all project
managers will need to be taught how to focus on the "the schedule has
changed" indicators that appear in the Indicators column of the Gantt Chart
view.

Please understand that this is just my opinion. Perhaps the others will
have some other ideas, too. Hope this helps.
 
M

marabella

There are several schools of thought on this... you can
include non-project time in your project, and allow a
percentage of the resource units to be assigned to it, or
you can set up a non-project time calendar, on an annual
basis, by group manager, and assign each resource to each
task @ 1%, thereby setting up individual tasks for them to
report against. The advantage of the latter, according to
MS is that you can then report on non-project time.
 
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