Workload Balancer

Hi Jane, The tool will be rolled out to Teams and Project Staffing area as well and that is planned as a beta exit criterion. We also plan for it to be available as a dashboard panel so you would be able to create custom dashboards with it and expose those to other users as well. Thanks, Vazgen Babayan Product Manager Workfront

Hi Jane, I agree, but for us it's not just a license issue, but a matter of the functionality. It would be a major detriment to my team if the Teams/Working On calendar was replaced by Workload Balancer, at least with its current functionality. In case replacement is planned, I sent feedback on Balancer to WorkFront, detailing what it would need to do in order for Balancer to be more useful for us. It sounds like Balancer is still a work-in-progress, so I'm hopeful there'll be additional improvements. Trudie Gauerke

Absolutely Trudie! There are several large scale improvements to Workload Balancer which are still in works and there will be no replacing of the current Scheduling solution without those in place. Only when the tool will exit the beta, the deprecation plan will be announced for the current Scheduling experience with the corresponding timelines and planned functionality enhancements. Vazgen Babayan Product Manager Workfront

Thanks Vaz, that's reassuring to know. Jane Bradshaw BAKKAVOR LTD

@Vazgen Babayan You mention large scale improvements being worked on. Are you able to share what those are? Or is there a list/update post to follow? Thanks! Janelle Hicks Lifespan Corporation

The main ones are (in priority order) Filters for both Assigned and Unassigned section Ability to view hours per day/week on work items Ability to change hours per day/week (potentially with changing the Planned Hour value - controlled via access permissions) Ability to visualize actual progress of work Bulk Assign, Swap and Unassign actions We will be gradually releasing the functionality and present our roadmap plans during quarterly roadmap calls. Thanks, Vazgen Babayan Product Manager Workfront

Hi Vazgen, Increased filtering will mean Job Roles will be included also? Thanks! Miranda Rais GVC

Correct. We also plan the ability to build custom filter rules as well using custom data. Vazgen Babayan Product Manager Workfront

Hi Vazgen, Would the Resource Manager ever be able to tweak the Planned hours directly in the Workload Balancer without having to click into the specific task or project? ie if they do not approve the amount of planned hours for a particular task and want to change it to the amount of hours that are approved? Thx Christine Christine Zhu Chobani

The way we were thinking about that is to control it through contouring experience, so if you have a task that spans 2 days with 10 hours and see a 5, 5 split, you can change the hours to 6, 6 or 7, 5 and it will update the task Planned Hours to 12. It should also be available only to the people with the corresponding access permissions. Will this solve for the scenario you mentioned? Vazgen Babayan Product Manager