Question

FB currently has a limitation with regard to how accurate EBS is. This is because the % Time Allocation doesn't take changing allocations into account.

I might be on projectA 10% this month, but 75% the month after that. This kind of change can drastically effect the accuracy of the reports. And these kinds of changes happen frequently in companies with shared/matrixed-resource models.

Can we get the ability to adjust project allocations over time?

Caution: - Even if the coolness of allocations over time is implemented, allocations should not override reality for the reports.

Case FC1856202

Answer 1

This would not conflict with any part of the EBS algorithm, and would give EBS a more accurate model of the project. The main issues are:

• We would need to add this in such a way that creating %time allocation over time does not confuse the UI for the simpler case of static %time allocations. This is probably solvable.

• What happens if your %time allocation for a project runs out before you are finished with work on that project? For instance, let's say you have projects A and B, and user Bob is supposed to be 25% on project A and 75% on project B in March. Starting April 1, he is 100% on project B. However, EBS projects that there is a slight chance that he won't finish with project A by April 1. It seems as though our only option then is to warn on this when we display the report, but then we're into a UI problem; we have to say 'in most cases, this works fine, but in x% of cases, this user is in trouble to finish the project before he is supposed to stop work on it.'