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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations

You're reading from  Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations

Product type Book
Published in May 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801072076
Pages 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Robert Houdeshell Robert Houdeshell
Profile icon Robert Houdeshell

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Foundation and Framework of Project Operations
2. Chapter 1: Introducing Project Operations 3. Chapter 2: Using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Framework for Success 4. Chapter 3: The How-Tos of Setting Up Project Operations 5. Section 2: Project Sales through Delivery
6. Chapter 4: The Account Manager – Project Selling 7. Chapter 5: Project Contracts and Pricing 8. Chapter 6: Practice Manager Functions – We Won the Contract! What Now? 9. Chapter 7: Resource Manager – Staffing for Success! 10. Section 3: Project Delivery through Operations
11. Chapter 8: Managing the Project to Success! 12. Chapter 9: Team Member Activities 13. Chapter 10: Approvals and Exceptions 14. Chapter 11: Project Accounting and Operations 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using resource forecasting

Resource forecasting is the forward view of your practice utilization. It is not a firm prediction of what exactly a team member will work on, but is instead is a plan of what they should work through in the next timeframe.

As you may recall, team members have roles and skills assigned to them that provide you with the ability to assign them to a project based upon those filters. Once a team member is booked, their calendars and work week should reflect bookings that have been made. Therefore, based upon their utilization goals, you should be able to view the proper utilization of your team members.

The following screenshot shows the utilization of our team members across a monthly timeline:

Figure 6.9 – Schedule board forecasting

The schedule board forecast shown in Figure 6.9 is purely an hours-driven view of the forecasted utilization of your team. The implications of this forecast drive revenue, whether working a...

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