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Scheduling & staffing · Bullpen

Dashboard

This week and the next two on one page: deadlines, who's booked on what, who's out, and the hours.

The Dashboard is the page to open on a Monday morning. It shows this week and the next two, Monday to Friday, a day per column. Bullpen opens on it.

The weeks move on by themselves. On a Thursday it still starts on this week's Monday, so the days already gone stay in view, faded. Today is marked. On a weekend, it starts on the coming Monday.

Every section uses the same day columns, so you can read straight down a day.

At a glance #

The tiles across the top:

  • Next deadline: the next package deadline or milestone, and how many working days are left.
  • Out in these weeks: who has time off in the three weeks.
  • Booked of available: hours booked against the hours people have, after holidays and time off.
  • Budget at the last deadline: hours to spare or over, when the packages have estimates.

Click a tile to jump to its part of the page.

Schedule #

  • Deadlines: each deadline on its day, marked with a diamond.
  • Bars: each package from its start to its deadline, with the schedule tasks it follows and the tasks picked for the chart under it.
  • Who's on it: under each package, a small bar for each day. It's split by person, in each person's color, and its height is the hours booked that day. Hover a piece for the name and hours. The colors are listed above the page.

People #

One row per person:

  • Each day: a bar of the hours booked, colored by package, against their normal day. A red mark means they're booked past their day, unless the plan ignores overbooking.
  • Out and Closed mark their time off and office holidays.
  • Cards: their Micro details cards under the row. A card over several days is one band.

The hours here are the plan's hours: a week's booking spread over its working days. Hours typed outside a package's dates don't count, as on the Staffing grid.

Time off #

Each stretch of time off is a band on its days. A band with a warning mark falls on a deadline, or on one of the two working days before it, for a package that person is booked on. Those are listed under the row.

Hours by week #

For each week: the hours booked against the hours people have, and what's open or over.

Click for details #

Click anything for a panel with its details:

  • A package: its dates, budget, who's booked each week, and its cards.
  • A person: their hours on each package each week, their time off and cards.
  • A day: that person's hours and cards that day.

From the panel you can add a card on a day, add or remove time off, open a card to change it, or jump to Staffing, Micro details or Team. Esc closes it.

People who can only view the plan see the details without the edit buttons.

Filters #

The view bar's package and people filters apply here. The weeks setting doesn't: the Dashboard is always three weeks.

If there isn't room for 15 columns, like on a phone, it shows one week at a time. Pick This week, Next or Week after.

For a printed version, use the Report.