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PSO Skills query

  • 20 June 2023
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Hi Team,

Can you please explain how skills work in PSO? As per our business requirement, skills should be inherited from Team to resource added to team in Resource Planner. 

We checked Planning > General Data > Skills and found the column Team Inheritable. Does it mean that the skills are inheritable? We don't know how to validate this. We cannot see skill details while adding individual resource to the team in Resource Planner.

 

Regards,

AJAY


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Userlevel 6
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Hi Ajay,

did you check the “Advanced Resource Planning Concepts” guide?

 

Integrating Teams With Scheduling

When integrated with the scheduling system, the Dynamic Scheduling Engine will schedule work for the team as a whole, rather than the individual resources within the team. On the Scheduling Resources screen in the workbench the team structure will be copied over from the resource planner so the individual team members can still be viewed as usual.

One significant feature here is that the skills attributed to the team can be inherited from the skills of the individuals within the team. When defining a skill there is a 'Team Inheritable' flag; if this is set to true then the team will inherit the skill from any individuals within it.

The 'Team Proficiency Multiplier' allows the proficiency of the team in a skill to be increased when multiple resources within the team possess the skill.

As an example of how the proficiency multiplier works, suppose that there are two resources within a team with the same skill. The first resource has this skill with proficiency 1, and the second resource possesses the same skill but with proficiency 0.8.

If no team proficiency multiplier is specified, or if the value is set to 0, then the team proficiency will equal that of the most proficient resource, which in this case would mean a proficiency of 1.

If the team proficiency multiplier is set to 1, then the team proficiency will be the sum of the individual resource proficiencies. In our example this would mean that the team proficiency would be 1.8.

Finally, any value between 0 and 1 can also be used. In this case the team proficiency would equal that of the most proficient resource, plus a proportion of the proficiencies of the other resources, as given by the multiplier. So in our example a value of 0.5 would mean that the team proficiency would be 1 + 0.5 * 0.8 = 1.4.


Best regards
Roman​​​​​​​

Userlevel 7
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Hi Ajay,

When you say you are adding a resource to a team in the resource planner, do you mean a team in terms of a schedulable team that Roman is talking about above or a division ?

Could you add a screenshot?

Thanks,

Tom

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