Resource Management is such a huge challenge within my company - generally a difficult thing to conquer in any line of work, really. You need people to close deals, people to revenue the work, people to train the people, and sadly… even people to (what often seems like) babysit people. It is difficu…

You are not using portfolio or workload, just using the google sheet integration at the portfolio level? I would reconsider if I were you the colors you use for the custom fields. Why would 2021 be red? Why have a flashy color for « n/a »?

I am using Portfolio specifically for Workload. The primary intent of this post is to show how you can easily setup a project template that provides the structure to bring this type of non-work data into view. I just didn’t include a screenshot of the Workload but can if that is helpful. The Google…

[image] LEGGO: The primary intent of this post is to show how you can easily setup a project template that provides the structure to bring this type of non-work data into view. Very good point indeed. [image] LEGGO: I honestly didn’t give much thought to the color-coding of the drop down…

I have been wondering how to properly see when people are OOO or on PTO in Asana workload for a while. This seems like it would work but sounds kind of bulky. Does the idea mean that each team member has their own private asana project, created from the template, and they must add tasks to represe…

Thanks for your feedback @anon68803854 . Sorry you feel this approach is bulky. Perhaps it is the long-winded nature of my post. :wink: We’ve been using this structure for a bit and am quite pleased with the flexibility and ease at which the layout provides. I’ve answered several of your questions be…

Hi everyone! This is great to read! @LEGGO if you don’t mind, I would be interested at looking at a screenshot of your workload. I have been trying to figure out a way to incorporate my team’s OOO in Asana for a while now. Many thanks!

@Alizée_Brien sorry for the delayed response. Here is a screenshot of a portion of my team where the projects added to the Portfolio are all those where they have billable work, in addition to their OOO projects. [Workload Sample_censored]

Hi, thanks fo this tip. In our company we still have a problem that is: If we have a task with a start date before a holiday period and a due date after that, how can we have a right distribution of the Workload? I hope to be clear in the explanation of our issue.

I understand your dilemma @Alessandro_De_Pieri . We typically will shift work around holidays or break the work up into phases on either side of the holidays. You can also extend the start or due date of the task, where permissible, to take into account the number of holidays that are contained with…

Hi All, Just to add to this. I too use Portfolio to manage workload and capacity. I have a project for OOOs, like Jared. I don’t use Asana to approve OOO (this is done in an HR tool), but for visibility regarding impact on our client projects. As team members request time off in our internal HR …

What is Workload without knowing your team's OOO (Out of Office) time? 🕛

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That’s a known limitation indeed, subtasks don’t count (yet) in Workload. See F2 on 🔥 Hottest feature requests and their workarounds

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What is Workload without knowing your team's OOO (Out of Office) time? 🕛

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