What do you all use as your percent for resource capacity? For example - a person works 40 hours a week - currently we have them listed as available for 37.5 hours a week. Some of our employees say they heard in a training class that we should be listing available hours at 80% which would be 32 hour...

We have students that work in our photography department. Their work schedules change from week to week based on our photography shoot needs. The students are only allowed to work up to 18 hours a week (but the specific times they work throughtout the week change). How would you all recommend settin...

In our print area we have a similar type situation. Our designers will create the piece, and then it goes to our in house print shop. It can be there for 5 days to 4-8 weeks depending on the project. Then it will come back to the department secretary who closes out the job by filing samples of the p...

Thanks for the help!! Does that ensure that the hours will be correct, or does it increase the hours? We are having a problem with it increasing the planned hours - we just want to split them. Lauren McCollim, M.B.A, PMP Advertising Project Manager Pensacola Christian College

Here is the scenario: Our video team has a video shoot of recording a lecture for training. We send one of our students to film it. Our staff video member will spend time walking over to check on how the filming is going along the way. We want to assign them to the task as well as a reminder that th...

We actually have one department that likes the feature, and one that does one. One of them likes the fact that the file name changes each time so we can see the name of the version we are on from the beginning. The other one doesn't like it because they use screen shots and just want to click and dr...

That's very helpful! I've been debating about letting our department supervisors move the dates on things, but it sounds like it's the best way for us to have the most accurate information about our planned work. One thing i do think i want to implement with them is being sure the client has approve...

What do you all do for a project like a complete website redesign? Currently our digital media area has created 112 projects to cover all of the different types of pages that are on the website. There are repeatable steps for each of the projects that are done for each page. Would you all put all th...

If tasks are late, do the planned hours for them still show up in the planner, or do they fall off with the week that the task was due? Lauren McCollim, M.B.A, PMP Advertising Project Manager Pensacola Christian College

I would be very interested to hear everyone's thoughts on this. One of the biggest complaints from our marketing department and even our clients is that there is not a place where they can see this promotional piece is going out on this day. I wasn't sure how to fix it for them. Lauren McCollim, M.B...