Virto Project Portfolio Manager (PPM) for Office 365 allows users to control workload of resources – workers or technical resources involved into a business process. It is a highly customizable project management & planning solution. Here users are able to create projects, set roles and resources for each of them – and see the whole structure of existing projects and manage working hours within organization. Users can also track and control dates and a workload in a Gantt Chart.
Here are some of the key features of the Virto PPM:
1. Manage your projects, set roles and resources. PPM helps managers to easily assign resources in projects based on their availability, skillset and existing workload. This project management solution helps identify issues like overbooking of resources or appeared days off which create gaps in planned workload. You can manage project, resources, roles, FTE, and project dates in 3 views: list view, Gannt chart, and Roles chart.
2. Choose the resources for project roles. Choose the most suitable resources for project roles according to required and existing skills.
3. Set detailed information about your resources. Add resources (workers or technical resources) to your project and define their skillsets, location, FTE, and calendars with personal days off, holidays, sick days, etc. Assign your resources to roles in the most effective way with skillset matching rate indication. Identify and resolve overbooking issues in a simple and visual UI.
4. Track the workload of your resources. Manage the workload for roles in a chart with color-coded elements.
