Work Effort Manager

Work Effort Manager

• Track work efforts
• Tasks & to-do items
• Hierarchical items for projects, phases, tasks, sub-tasks, etc.
• Assign items to multiple parties
• Track priority, cost estimates, etc
• Track estimated and actual: start times, end times, durations
• Calendar events
• Manage shared and private scheduled calendar event
• View by day, by week or by month
• Notify other parties of events, tasks, assignments, and accomplishments
• Workflow Activities
• View all activities assigned to you
• View all activities assigned to a role or party group that you belong to
• Update the status of your involvement in the activity
• Based on your status updates the system will automatically update the activity status
• Custom templates and views can be added to display information related to each activity from the workflow process context or other database data
• Work efforts are associated with the cost side of the Cost-Benefit analysis; to manage both sides of the comparison work efforts can be associated with requirements or requests
• Track requests
  • Supports requests: for support, for features, for fixes, for information, for quotes, for proposals
  • Associate requests with requirements
  • Associate requests with work efforts (tasks, projects, etc)
  • Each request consists of multiple items, each of which contains details about what is desired
  • The request acts as a package of multiple desired items
  • Each request item contains a “story“ of what is desired
  • In the Cost-Benefit scheme of things a request is associated with the benefit side; costs are associated with the resulting work efforts, allowing you to track and manage BOTH sides of the comparison
• Track requirements
• Used to internally manage required features for a product
• Usually based on requests, or request items to be more accurate
• Each requirement contains a ”use case“ for a more formal description of what is to be created
• Requirements are also on the benefit side of the Cost-Benefit analysis, but the benefits are generally better understood through associated requests