Extending the Deadline and Hiring more people are not always options
In a world where deadlines are deadlines, project completion depends heavily on effectively assigning the right resources to the right activities. By offering easy to understand report, FastTrack Resources gives you the tools you need to do just that, because extending the deadline and hiring more people are not always options.
While in the past, a common approach was ╥bulldozing╙ resources to create a level work load effect, FastTrack Resources takes into account the fact that not all resources are created equal. Sometimes people need to be over scheduled, and facilities need to be filled beyond normal capacity to get the job done. As a manager, you need to take advantage of who and what is going to help you to complete activities, and as a manager you know that although on paper two resources may appear identical, they rarely are.
FastTrack Resource lets you take advantage of strengths and avoid weaknesses by providing easy navigation through resource information. Then you can do what you do best _ choose the best resource to successfully complete the assignment.
Of course, there will be times when compromises have to be made, and to accommodate these sometimes delicate situations, FastTrack Resource gives you the ability to experiment with resource assignments so that conflicts can be minimized or avoided.
With FastTrack Resource, you can create a flexible environment within your project that suits both your resources and your schedule. By offering more information about your resources, the activities that need to be completed, and the overall project requirements, FastTrack Resource equips you with all what it takes to make the most effective decisions.
Powerful
Gives Managers information about their resources quickly:
Ñ Who╒s already allocated?
Ñ How qualified is this resource?
Ñ How long is the activity?
Ñ Which resources are available?
FastTrack Resource gives answers to these and more questions. And based on these answers you can do what you do best-make the best decisions.
Solutions
FastTrack Resources was designed to offer a realistic approach to resource allocation and to make allowances for the fact that real world deadlines can be inflexible. FastTrack Resource╒s interactive reports make experimenting easy and give an immediate portrayal of how one allocation solution might affect another.
Whether your current solution requires a simple Gantt chart of activities or projects, a straight forward histogram of resources╒ workloads, or even just descriptive columnar text reports, FastTrack Resource has the intuitive interface demanded for making an application usable, and therefore, effective.
Navigation
By creating various searches and sub-searches, you can customise reports to include just the resources or activities that you are interested in viewing at that moment. To offer even greater flexibility, you can also temporarily hide or show selected resources, so that picking the right one is obvious. One of the most unique and most valuable features is its ability to show Available Resources for a specific activity scheduled, or to show the resources currently assigned to other activities during that particular time frame.
Compromises
Deadlines are deadlines, but sometimes no matter how effectively resources have been managed, the schedule must be compromised. When the only solution is to adjust a schedule, FastTrack Resource gives you the power to either drag activity bars to a new time frame on your Gantt chart, or type in new start and/or finish dates to see instantly how changes are going to affect current resource histograms. This interactive presentation of resources vs. activities is another real world approach to solving what could be an allocation crises.
Complete
With FastTrack Resources╒ versatile reporting options, you get the whole picture:
Ñ Gantt charts offer a basic timeline of events.
Ñ Histograms show who and what╒s allocated or over allocated.
Ñ Combination charts display which activities the resources are working on.
Some of the Features
Ñ Import and Export schedules or resource information with databases, CPM programs, spreadsheets or scheduling programs.
Ñ ╥Copy Page╙ to place images of FastTrack Resources reports in word processing documents, drawing programs or page layout programs.
Print reports as standard or legal sizes.
Ñ Search and sub-search for available resources.
Ñ Create any number of reports, Gantt charts, or histograms.
