What do you include in your resource schedule?
Screenshot of a multi-faceted resource plan in fflow. For details, check out the images in the main article, which builds up the details gradually.

What do you include in your resource schedule?

  1. Essentials

The core of a resource schedule:

  • Who
  • What
  • When

Screenshot showing a resource plan in fflow, with names on the left, dates across the top, and tasks in white boxes with a dashed dark border. Green scribbles over the top point to a name, a date, and a task.

2. Status

Do more! Track status in the same plan:

  • Done
  • In fflow
  • Not done

Screenshot showing a resource plan in fflow, the same core elements as before, with tasks in colourful boxes showing status. Green scribbles over the top point to the colour-coded status information.

3. Not in work

The project manager needs to know about time not working, as well as working. Add HR information:

  • Flexible working pattern
  • Training / education
  • Vacation
  • Medical

Screenshot showing a resource plan in fflow, with the core and status elements from before, and non-work activities in grey boxes. Green scribbles over the top point to flexible working pattern and a training activity.

4. Not assigned

A task that doesn't have an owner is as important as work that does. Or maybe more. Include unassigned tasks:

  • Unassigned

Screenshot showing a resource plan in fflow, with the core, status, and non-work elements from before, and a task that has no assigned owner. Green scribble points to the unassigned task.

At fflow, we like to offer you the ability to visualise all the time and task related information in a combined schedule.

We also believe in flexibility, so you can make it work for you: no need to track all of these, just the elements you care about.

How many of these do you capture in your resource plan? What else do you track? Let us know in the comments.

Sarah Eggleston

Plan and track projects | fflow.io | Superpower: working with tiny budgets | Cancer warrior ??? | Choral singer ??

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