Resource Assignments
Staff the schedule and see, period by period, where demand exceeds what your people can actually supply — with baseline, actual, remaining and scenario on the same axis.
Who it is for. Anyone who has to defend a staffing plan, or explain why a crew is double-booked in March.
What it is for
Assignment arithmetic is where most tools quietly overwrite the number you just typed, and portfolio histograms hide over-allocation by pooling it — an electrician at 200% disappears behind an idle surveyor. This re-solves the four quantities around whichever field you edited, and sums each resource’s own excess rather than netting it out.
Over-allocation is calculated for each resource, so double-booked people remain visible even when others have spare capacity. Five demand lanes, including a crash scenario, share one axis for reviewing the staffing plan and its alternatives.
What it does
Every line below is in the product today.
Edit any one of four, the other three follow
Units, hours, rate and cost re-solve around whichever field you just edited — so the value you typed is never the one that gets overwritten.
Over-allocation is never pooled
Each resource’s excess is summed on its own. A portfolio cannot report 51% utilised while nine people are double-booked.
Capacity from the real calendar
Supply comes from the governing calendar’s working days, holidays and exceptions — not a flat five-day week.
Five demand lanes, one axis
Planned, baseline, actual, remaining and crash-scenario, all through the same spread engine and the same buckets.
Baseline shows what was promised, when
The baseline lane spreads baselined staffing over the baselined dates, so slipped work appears in the period it was originally due.
Remaining cannot go negative
Remaining is planned minus actual per bucket, floored at zero, so an overspent period cannot cancel out later work.
A resource spread matrix
Resource and activity rows against period columns, in hours or cost, with pinned planned, actual, baseline, variance and remaining totals, and a cumulative mode.
The arithmetic is shown, not hidden
The assignment panel spells out duration times hours-per-day times units into hours, and hours times rate into cost, alongside the resource’s ceiling.
It reads and writes with
Resources
The resource pool — people, materials, equipment and cost items — stocked from the global library and carrying the rate and capacity everything else calculates with.
Time-Phase
Spread cost and units across periods with a choice of distribution curve, and read it as a histogram, an S-curve or a detailed spread matrix.
Cost
One cost dashboard that adds up cost assignments, resource assignments and activity fixed costs without double-counting them.
CP Crash
Find the cheapest way to pull the finish date in, see what each day actually costs, and know the exact date the critical path moves to a different chain.
See it on your own schedule.
Send an XER before the call and we will import it and show you Resource Assignments running against your data.