Workflow question

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Dave

I have a pool of 7 developers with a manager. I don't want to assign work to
the 7 developers directly but assign them all to the manager and have him
delegate. How is the best way to do this?

Right now, I have a generic "developer" at 700% allocation units. My team
allocates tasks to this one resource and levels appropriately. Then we pass
these tasks to the development lead and they redistribute as they see fit.

However, ideally we allocate these tasks to the development lead and they
delegate to their team members. But this means we set our development
manager at 700% which seems wrong.

So, how do we assign and level 7 resources but then have one person delegate
them?

Dave
 
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Sarah

Dave,

If you know how many of those 7 resources will be on the task, you can
assign that number of generic resources (Developer1, Developer2,...)
each with 100% availability. If you set the authentication for these
generic developers to equal the lead's authentication (if that's
possible; I'm not a techie), then the lead could delegate each generic
developer to one real developer. I may be off base on this if it's not
even possible, but it seems logical, right? ;-)

Sarah
 
G

Guest

Sara,

I think you are pretty close to on target.

The project manager can delegate resourcing to a resource
manager user who can apply generic resources, to tasks.
After initially resourcing the tasks the resource manager
can substitute actual resources from the pool. You will
have to attribute skills, locations and other types of
codes to your resources to be able to sort them the way
you want. Next use the feature called the resource
substition wizard that lets managers you look at your
resource pool, locate the actual resources you want to
use, id their skills and availability, and swap out the
generic ones for the specific ones.

Hope this process works for you.
 
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