Functional Description
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When a major forward planning effort is required, the work of
creating
resource demand for many projects can
be time and labor consuming. The job of creating a future portfolio
is facilitated by providing a library of project templates
containing all
project data attributes and
resource
demand data.
An authorized user can add the
project data record and the
resource
demand (
Effort Forecasts) records of
selected projects to the template library. All users can create
projects with the associated
Effort Forecast records by
selecting templates from the library.
When a template is saved to the library, the resource and skill
Effort
Forecast records are saved as is or can be summarized by
node-skill. If the "Skills rollup" box is checked (summarization by
skill) the template will contain only skill demand records. If
there are named resources in the source and the "Skills rollup" box
is not checked, the template will be specific about the named
resources.
When a template is retrieved from the library as a new project, the
user can specify a total demand number different from the actual
total demand in the template. The demand curve over time is
proportionally adjusted up or down. The user can also specify a
different number of periods from that of the template. The shape of
the demand profile curve is retained but is spread over the
different duration.