ProjectLoad Blog

One of the major underlying assumptions in ProjectLoad is that those people who are responsible for performing assignments are the ones that should provide and maintain the estimates for those assignments. Each person is assigned work from project managers but it is ultimately up to the person doing the work to provide feedback to the project manager on when the assignment will be completed and how many hours of effort will be required. As long as staff provides accurate estimates, the system can provide information on projected workloads, project schedules, overtime requirements, and scheduling problems for people, teams, and projects.

Up until now the system has assumed that once the regular work hours of an individual were exhausted, overtime would be assigned evenly to all days in the timeframe an assignment was to be worked. Now you can choose to have the system place overtime only on regularly scheduled work days instead of placing hours on off days (until a limit is reached). This gives more flexibility to indicate there may be times when overtime is required and when it happens they are more likely to work longer hours on a normal work day than to come in on an off day.

To use this new feature, simply go to the Settings page and specify the number of overtime hours you would like placed on regular work days before you are willing to work on off days. If overtime is required based on your estimates and regular work schedule, overtime will be placed on regular work days first until the specified limit is reached. If even more overtime is required, then additional hours will be placed on days you would normally not work at all.