Detailed Work Planning Overview

The detailed work planning feature in Newforma Project Analyzer allows you to schedule staffing resources for a project in detail week-by-week. This gives you the flexibility to modify staffing assignments as the required effort changes, giving you much tighter control over the resources needed to complete a job. You can also use this feature to help you estimate the amount of effort needed by assigning named and generic (unnamed) resources to tasks on the project.

Use detailed work planning to:

To access detailed work planning

Use the Detailed Staffing dialog box for detailed work planning. You can access the Detailed Staffingdialog box the following ways:

From the Team tab:

The Detailed Staffingdialog box, shown here, helps you to assign an employee to the project and to plot out the time they will spend per week on the phase. Refer to the Detailed Staffingdialog box for more information.

From the Tasks tab

Select the record for the task that you wish to modify. Right-click anywhere on the row and select Detailed Task Planning, as shown here, to open the Detailed Task Planningdialog box.

Considerations: