ScreenPlanner White Paper Planning Resources in the Virtual Organisation Background Screen Planner was designed to help in the allocation of a group of staff working on a number of projects. It is particularly suited to management consultancies and teams of staff who work on a number of projects concurrently. There are a number of advantages to being able to visualise resource allocation. Managers can see at a glance which projects their team are currently working on.
Managers can see which individuals are available to take on new work.
Team members can see their workload for the next week, month or longer period. Team members can also see the workload of the rest of the team. The example below shows a chart for room booking, where each day is divided into 4 two-hour booking periods. Screen Planner can address the requirements of the above applications with more functionality and flexibility than other software tools currently on the market. For instance,. a groupware product can be tailored to provide similar functionality - but without the visualisation capabilities.