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Project Resource Management Software | Features

Create Organization structure

ZilicusPMhas a unique feature, wherein you can build your organization's hierarchy for project management purpose. You can visualize organization hierarchy in a graphical as shown here. The advantage of such organization hierarchy is, your reporting structure as desired by organization gets reflected naturally in data access levels. Know more about this feature in subsequent section. This organogram primarily decides view access to the portfolio of projects based on individual's reporting. See what others have to say about project organogram.
project organogram, organization hierarchy

Project team members

Build your project team

As a project manager, when you complete project planning, you identify clearly, roles & responsibilities of resources required to complete a project. As project is being commenced or during the course of project execution, you meed to assign team members to carry out project activities. With ZilicusPMyou can very easily check & get visuals of resources' utilization/work load and accordingly you can assign resource(s) to tasks, issues and risks. Even managing project resource is easy. You can add/remove members of the project team. yet retaining their historical work.

Add/Modify resource details

As an account administrator you can quickly add new resource, provide necessary details like name, contact details, job title, etc. You can decide role of a given user, based on which, his access in ZilicusPM & respective projects get defined. Apart from site administrative activity, as a project manager, you can manage resources in your project team. You can add/remove team members on the fly.
Add/Modify resource details

Resource Allocation

Resource Cost and Billing Rate

As you add new user to ZilicusPM, you can set his/her cost and billing rate. These rates are default at organization level. So whenever this resource is added to new project, his organization's default rate are shown. As a project manager you can overwrite team member's cost and billing rates.

Resource Allocation - Cost and Billing Rates

ZilicusPM let project manager set cost and billing rates for project team members. Project manager can also change resource allocation, assign him/her to resource group.
Project Resource Load

Real time resource availability, What-if capacity planning

Capacity Check - Resource Load Before Assignment

Using ZilicusPM, resource availability feature, you can check whether a given team member is over-allocated or under-allocated or optimally allocated for the duration of a given tasks. It is a what-if way to assess resource availability without assigning tasks to a given team member.

Resource Load Chart

Project planners have to take into consideration various constraints while creating project schedule. Project resource availability has always been one of the important constraints. Project resource management software ZilicusPM enables project managers to view resource load across all project and decide whether a resource can be invited to be part of your project team. The resource load chart shows whether a given resource is over-loaded, under-assigned or optionally loaded with project activities across all projects.
Project Resource Load

Real time resource availability, What-if capacity planning

Real Time Resource Availability

Using ZilicusPM, resource availability feature, you can check whether a given team member is over-allocated or under-allocated or optimally allocated for the duration of a given tasks. It is a what-if way to assess resource availability without assigning tasks to a given team member.

Resource Leave Plan

Beside project deliverables and suitable resource, project planner needs to consider resource availability. Project team members can go on leave. ZilicusPM facilitates employee leave management. When team members apply for leave, its manager can approve or rejects the application. Once approved, the duration of leave impacts resource availability, efforts for fixed duration tasks, resource load and resource utilization.
Employee Leave Plan

Resource assignment to task

Resource Scheduling

Using intuitive interface, resource allocation has never been so simple and fast. You can work smartly using Zilicus PM. It lets you quickly assign tasks & delegate work to your team members at a click of a button. It is easy to identify under-allocated or over-allocated resource(s) and assign/off load them with tasks. As you can effectively optimize resource allocation for your project using Zilicus PM's Resource Management solution which enhance team utilization & productivity thus you can always stay ahead in team performance.

Resolve resource Conflict

By monitoring resource utilization - over-loading or under-loading, you can easily manage resource conflict while assigning/reassigning them to project activities. Get a report of resource utilization as well resource availability, based on these you can guage resource conflict. You can reschedule task or reassign the task to some other resource to resolve such resource conflict.
resource utilization

Resource Timesheet Reports

Measure efficiency & performance

The timesheet feature helps you in tracking number of hours spent by each resource. You can even track further, whether work hours logged are accounted for billable & non-billable work. Thus you can closely monitor performance of the resource working in your project team.

Add 'Email Only User'

Now you can extend your project management tool with those users who can receive email notification but unable to log-in to tools like ZilicusPM. The user type 'Email Only User' allow these users to be treated just like a normal user i.e.
  • It can be assigned tasks
  • It can have cost, billability associated
  • It can be tracked for resource availability
Email Only User in ZilicusPM

Why you should use project resource management solution?

When you have hundreds of tasks to complete, dozens of issues & risks to manage for a given project - you will need a robust project resource management tool to organize your project activities.

Identifying right resource (in terms of skillset, role and experience), assigning project activities to carry out appropriate tasks, following up with them on progress, checking resources work load CAN NOT be easily managed by pen-paper or using spreadsheet approach. It is best done with right project management software solution. Such solution relieve you of painstaking work of keeping tab on various aspects of resource management.

Zilicus PM: Your best choice for resource management software !

Forget about the complex & stressful job of managing team, start using ZilicusPM's advanced Resource Management software, have easy time in managing projects and project team. With a click of button, now you can manage resource. See how easy it is to do task assignment, allocation & deallocation, modifying project access, enter & collect timesheet details.

ZilicusPM makes it simpler for project planer in identifying right resources, optimally assign work load, track time spent on project activities, track resource performance indicators, do resource capacity planning - all at one place. And importantly, resources will always be informed, well communicated using ZilicusPM project management software platform.