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Accounting & Re-allocate hours not worked upon in Work Laod Balancer

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RavindraRa
Level 3

9/26/23

Description - The Work Load Balancer currently doesn't account for hours not worked upon by an user. WLB doesn't have the ability to automatically re-allocate hours across days remaining (based on task duration).

 

Example:

If I have 10 planned hours over the course of the week, WF shows 2 planned hours per weekday:

2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2

 

However, if none of those hours are actually worked (didn’t' get to it, OOO, etc) the hours stay planned on those days. 

 

Requirement :  If time is NOT logged against planned hours, we need the WLB to move the hours and reallocate.

example:

planned

2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2

User Skipped working on something Tues and Wed. WLB need to provide an option to move those hours to the rest of the time frame and show:

2 - 0 - 0 - 4 – 4

 

 

Why is this feature important to you - This will provide users flexibility to utilize the missed hours and an option to reallocate work in WLB automatically. Overall help in work & time management.

How would you like the feature to work - There should be an option to enable or disbale this feature based on need by an user.

Current Behaviour - Automatic reallocation of hours doesn't happen

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LauraBarker
Level 1

9/26/23

This would be really helpful for resource managers who don't know how far a task or request has progressed. This makes it more difficult to assign new work if the current Workload is not reflected accurately. Thank you!

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10/3/23

Yes, agreed.  I had suggested in another post to at least show another column with previous/unfinished work hours, but I like this better.  We struggle with resources showing as under allocated when they are absolutely not.  Project Owners just don't have the bandwidth to keep pushing out planned completion dates on dozens/hundreds of projects every day.

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