guitarly / finalproject

Staffing Online (SOL)

enabling project teams to make the most out of their talent pool

See a holistic view of your program. See all the workstreams and the supporting staff for each of your engagements in one comprehensive dashboard. You're on the clock, and we understand that. Staffing Online provides a utility to see real-time funding metrics of your project. Extensibility is the key to ensuring the longevity of your project management tools and, ultimately the reduction in your overhead. Staffing Online is based on an easy-to-upgrade platform to meet your future project management needs

WHAT IS IT

THE PROBLEM: One of the greatest characteristics that sets apart those that 'succeed' in the professional world is their ability to influence. In consulting and management, not unlike many other careers, influencing requires a near real-time understanding of ones availability and their current delivery efforts. The purpose of SOL is to provide transparency into staff availability and to capture utilization data.

SOL: SOL provides visibility to managers of staff timesheets, hours allocated per project, planned revenue per project, planned vs actual hours, and forecast utilization. SOL also allows staff to track their work authorizations.

TECHNOLOGY

FRONTEND: JQuery, Node/Express, Charts.js, tables.js, bcrypt, HTML, CSS/Bootstrap

BACKEND: Ruby on Rails, Postgres/Mongodb

User Stories

• As a registered user, this app allows one to:

  • Create/Read/Update/Delete work authorizations for staff,
  • Review key metrics and track performance of projects and staff through a single dashboard
  • Track and update ones authorizations

• This app is particularly useful for:

  • Managers who need to forecast staff availability and capture performance data (e.g., planned revenue per project, planned vs actual hours)
  • Staff who need a one-stop-shop for all their work authorizations and to track their remaining hours on an engagement