Susan and Marta,I've scheduled a Zoom call for a few of us who are
struggling with the Workload Balancer -- it's today (Monday) at 3 p.m.
(EST). If you'd like, I'd be happy to add you to the invite, please just
provide your email address.
Hi Kevin, I'm going to set up a time to meet with Christie so we can
discuss this challenge in-depth. I can include you in the meeting invite
if you'd like. If you'd like to do that, just message me with your email
address and I'll reach out to get everyone's availability.
Your question jumped out at me because we are a creative agency within a
university and we are really struggling with the time it takes to make
the Workload Balancer anywhere near accurate. Our creatives want
flexibility and don't want to be expected to work on projects in
prescribed blocks of time. If we assign a task for 5 hours and give a
1-week duration, Workfront spaces it out with 1 hour per day for the
user. But creatives don't work like that. Our project managers are
spending a huge amou...
Hi Jill,We've been in Workfront almost a year and have 4 project
managers who each manage 20-30 projects on any given day. We adopted
Workfront as a department (creative marketing department within a
university) and there wasn't an option for them to adopt or not. Most of
our projects are managed via waterfall, and they are pretty skilled at
setting up projects with multiple deliverables and utilizing
predecessors to manage the workflow. The problem we have is keeping up
with the deviations to t...
We use the reference ID number in WF as the unique project number. This
is combined with a code based on the client we are doing the work for as
well as the year the project was initiated. For example, KRA-21-102897.
Our project managers add this code (KRA-21-102897) to the beginning of
the project name.
We have implemented Workfront for our marketing team and are now
bringing our news team colleagues into Workfront. The marketing team has
been a chargeback for many years so they are very used to tracking time
and we have well-established processes for different deliverables so we
were able to rather easily translate that to project templates and
processes within Workfront. However, the news team has never tracked
time and is struggling with the concept. We are trying to clarify their
processes ...