Challenge Overview
The Fall Plan Resource Tool will be used to put in place the appropriate plan consisting of people, projects, and cost around a collection (portfolio) of projects. "Fall Plan" is an annual exercise that is conducted to estimate the number of employees that will work in a portfolio of projects for a given calendar year. In addition, project funding, utilization models and expense estimates are factored into the larger portfolio picture to ultimately determine the cost and budget for providing IT service to clients. The Fall Plan Resource Tool will help manage labor rates, head count totals, number of hours worked and project expenses. The tool will allow for user input as well as summarization and aggregation of data in tabular data reports.
The application is broken into 3 discrete parts: Reference administration, project management, and reporting. Reference administration provides management of reference data for the given calendar year. Project management allows users to manage projects, which includes usage of reference data. Finally, the reporting part provides access to reports based on the projects managed in the previous part.
The current process uses a spreadsheet to manage all of this. The new application will shift all of this into a convenient web application with a centralized data repository.
This component provides services to manage the labor rate entities.
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Please see this link for full application and architecture documentation:
http://www.topcoder.com/wiki/display/~ghostar/Fall+Plan+Resource+Tool+Tracking