Create a Realistic
Overview
Manage Requests
and Conflicts
Monitor and Predict
Utilization
Understand Your Resource Availability
Use the Team Planner to visualize how capacities and project requirements match up over time. This helps you make informed decisions on plan feasibility, resource utilization, and potential changes to capacity or timing – without time-consuming discussions and abstract tabular comparisons.
Leading Companies Manage Their Resources with Meisterplan
Ensure Reliable Resource Data for Project Planning
Establish a foundation for resource management in the Resource Pool with all relevant data in one place, such as working time models and planned absences. Organize employees into teams, or plan on the role or individual level for maximum capacity transparency.
Visualize How Capacity and Initiatives Fit Together
Balance up-to-date commitments and capacity in the Team Planner‘s Compact Mode. With a histogram that’s customized to your resources, you’ll get a full overview of your teams so you can guarantee a reasonable workload for everyone.
Compare Scenarios and Allocate People to Priority Topics
Test the impact on your portfolio when hiring new people or shifting existing capacity across projects in the Portfolio Designer. This centralized view allows you to select the best possible plan so you can avoid wasting time on the wrong topics.
Staff the Best-Suited Resources to Your Projects
Use the Staff Role Mode to filter for resources in order of availability, so you can find the right people and fulfill incoming requests. This supports resource managers in complex role-staffing situations with live previews of potential overallocations.
Report on Resource Utilization to Inform Strategic Decisions
Identify and directly report on areas of high or low activity along with detailed corresponding values using a heatmap report. Pick out patterns, trends, and anomalies of resource utilization across large datasets and intuitively interpret them thanks to their clear color-coding.
What Bredon loves about Meisterplan
Meisterplan filled a significant gap for us in understanding how we are utilizing our capacity. We now have a much better idea when we need to either say no to new projects or adjust timelines and team members assigned to projects. No other tool gave us this high-level view. It brought our stress level down.
What Marcus loves about Meisterplan
With Meisterplan, our resource utilization is more transparent. Due to the seamless integration into our existing processes, we can increase the satisfaction of both our customers and employees.
What Christopher loves about Meisterplan
When you don’t have a resource management tool you end up putting work on people without knowing how loaded they are. That leads to health problems, such as stress. It leads to people working ridiculously long hours. The retention of your staff goes down. With Meisterplan, we can protect our people.
What Barry loves about Meisterplan
I give Meisterplan an A+ for the experience of modifying the project timeline and resourcing. Consider this model if you’ve struggled to forecast resource capacity using spreadsheets or large commercial tools.
What Felix loves about Meisterplan
Meisterplan opened our eyes to resource bottlenecks and new portfolio solutions.
Resource Management Can Be Simple!
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