Well, I'm glad I asked other people because I was totally wrong. I personally like #1 better but no one else did! LOL!!! I liked Screenshot 1 the best just because we have a lot of roles on a project and if you were only focusing on Art Director roles, you could see that. However, we are assuming there are filters for the Unassigned section so that might not matter. For Screenshot 2 (which had the majority of wins for us), the only concern the team had was what happens when there are multiple unassigned roles on a single task? In the screenshot we see that the project User Stories has 4 roles, but when expanded it doesn't show what happens on the task level. Will it also just say "4 Roles" or will it break out the task 4 times to show each of those roles separately. Again, we are assuming the filter on the top can be for a certain role, so it might not be a real issue. For Screenshot 3, people asked if they clicked "Engineer" will that auto apply a filter to only show tasks and issues with that role? (Kind of looks like a hyperlink). And while they loved the summary info for the Roles with the total unassigned hours, they were confused at what value the Tasks and Issues summary added. They were curious what it would look like in our system with lots of unassigned worked.

Overall they liked the direction this is heading. The one concern everyone had, including myself is scheduling someone for a whole project. Are there plans where you can see this view over several months? Because ideally, we want the same Art Director on the whole projects so when a new project comes in, we want to see who has the bandwidth to work on it. And then we have the daily shuffle as things change, adhoc stuff comes in, or people are out sick. Anthony Imgrund FCB