Product development and engineering projects are dynamic and complex, often stretching over multiple years and requiring intricate planning. Tempus Resource is designed to streamline these complexities and bring clarity to your resource management processes.
Do deadlines feel like wishful thinking? Projects in product development often support ongoing product enhancements, making it easy to lose sight of long-term goals.
Without proper resource management strategies or visibility into who’s working on what and when, resources are either over- or under-assigned.
Juggling multiple Excel sheets or outdated project management tools often leads to a fragmented view of capacity and resources, untrustworthy data, and no ability to effectively model or forecast.
Traditional tools might assign tasks but fail to provide visibility into the effort required or the capacity available, making it difficult to ensure resources are actually planned on even high-priority projects.
Using a mix of agile and waterfall project management strategies can complicate resource planning further and make it difficult to maintain consistency across project approaches.
Dive into scenario planning that lets you evaluate the impact of introducing new products or changes in project direction as well as identify potential resource or skill gaps, all without altering your live data.
View all resources in one screen – regardless of role or team – with heatmaps and net availability views that give you instant powerful insight into resource utilization.
Plan using teams, roles, and named resources to understand gaps and bottlenecks 12 months, 36 months, or even 10 years into the future. Tempus Resource also enables detailed governance through Resource Request Workflows.
Ability to plan at the team level with a Team Resource made up of individual people and resources, including their time and capacity, to be assigned to projects to support Agile project management.
Visualize product roadmaps with integrated project and product milestones. Our enhanced Gantt charts offer detailed insights, making product management more effective and informative.
Simplify planning and forecasting when you can view all teams, managers, and project managers in one screen. Standardize how teams work together and define capacity at the individual level to accommodate diverse work schedules and locations, ensuring every resource’s availability is accounted for accurately.
Skills can be set by individual resources or defined by a manager at the resource level to help resource managers understand which resource is the best fit for a project.
Timesheets allow resources to submit their time on all projects so Project Managers and Managers can compare planned allocations versus actuals to guide decision making and planning in the future.
This add-on provides Business Intelligence reporting built into Tempus Resource, including Advanced Reporting and Dashboarding with the ability to set custom alerts based on the most important data thresholds.
Tempus Resource works with popular tools like Workday, Oracle, MS Project, SuccessFactors, JIRA, Azure DevOps, and more.
Discover a level of insight you’ve never had before. From the moment your project and resource data is entered into Tempus Resource, you’ll be able to view all resource allocations, identify at-risk projects, and access powerful features that enable you to plan proactively. The benefits are immediately available and extend far into the future to enhance every aspect of your product development lifecycle.