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Workload Balancer - In Line Planned Hours Allocation Editing

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7/12/22

TLDR: It would be great if we could more easily adjust the planned hours across a multi-day task similar to Scheduler


Our team currently uses Scheduler for daily meetings and planning new work requests. We understand our resource availability based on the Scheduler Planned Hours and since our average project durations are 2-10 days our task durations are usually .25-2 days at 2 hours or less. So large amounts of short sprint tasks. When projects need to be re-prioritized or adjusted to account for new or more critical work the Project Managers need to "balance the hours" by editing the planned hour allocations across our task durations, or just moving the task out. The latter is preferred as it honors due date commitments.


Now that we are preparing to move to Balancer, having the edit allocations buried by even more clicks creates additional touch points and frustration on our PM team. It would be great if we could more easily adjust the planned hours across a multi-day task similar to Scheduler even if it was a toggle setting that needed to be turned on.


I will add that visually, Scheduler is the preferred tool by myself and our team. It's cleaner and we are able to view a calendar of tasks versus Projects + Tasks. In Balancer it is currently much more cluttered if you want to view tasks. While our adjustment to this will be reviewing our day-to-day by project level and putting more accountability on the resources to understand their daily tasks (which could have benefits) we'd prefer to see tasks since our projects involve many short tasks.

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9/28/23

I totally agree!  If there were a way for us to bake in the hour allocations within the templates, that would be even better!  We have set hours we want to allocate to each day over the duration and would love a way to do that in the template vs. manual editing.  (If there is a way to do this already, would appreciate someone telling me how!)