Resource Pool

The resource pool is the shared data basis for resource supply, capacity planning, and portfolio analysis. It contains employees, roles, teams, calendars, material, machines, project customers, categories, and status values.

Resource pool properties

Contents

Typical contents:

  • calendars

  • roles or professional qualifications

  • employees

  • teams

  • material

  • machine types

  • machinery

  • project customers, project categories, and project status values

Usage

A shared resource pool enables cross-project capacity planning. Portfolios and summary projects only produce reliable utilisation values when the participating projects use the same resource pool.

Roles and qualifications in the resource pool

Server Operation

With Rillsoft Integration Server or Rillsoft Cloud, the resource pool is managed centrally. Each client has exactly one resource pool; it is selected in Rillsoft Project via File > Resource pool > Rillsoft Integration Server > Select, see Create and Select a Resource Pool with Rillsoft Integration Server. Access can be controlled through user roles, for example reading, editing, locking, or unlocking the resource pool.

Manage the resource pool in Integration Server