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Personal Planning

Fully integrated with the Hydra solution, Hydra Personal is an intuitive and easy-to-use personal management and timesheet system. It eliminates time-consuming tasks of manually re-keying information. Timesheet records of actual work done can be entered quickly and efficiency and stored in a single, unified system so you can reduce reporting cycles and administration workload. Hydra Personal can also be accessed over the web allowing dispersed teams to immediately access their project assignments at any time, any place in the world .

How can Hydra help Personal Planning?

Hydra was designed from the ground up to be the first Program Management Software solution. We recognised that reporting actual effort and effort to complete, by the people doing the work, was far more accurate than other people guessing percent complete.

Fully integrated with the Hydra solution, Hydra Personal (part of Hydra Manager) can;

• Operate an intuitive and easy-to-use timesheet system
• Help staff to organise their time more effectively and ensure business objectives are met on time
• Increase visibility of projects and plans to the whole organisation which prevents budget overruns and project scope creep
• Consolidate all tasks that are scheduled to obtain a single view of business activity
• Reduce reporting cycles and administration workload
• Reduce invoice or cross charge preparation work
• Start to capture peoples time and effort and then migrate to more sophisticated project and program planning
• Ensure resources are never over-allocated to present a realistic view of achievable activities for staff to work towards
• Access and input information without installing software on local workstations or PCs to enable staff to operate from remote locations

Benefits of Personal Planning

Hydra offers easy-to-use and integrated timesheet and personal plan facilities. Each team member connected to the system has access to Hydra Personal, providing personal planning and timesheet reporting functionality. The timesheet allows collection of actual data and latest estimates of remaining work.

The Diary View provides a personal schedule as well as a convenient method of recording personal notes and actual achievement. This is automatically updated for every resource with access to the system when a manager publishes their plan. Hydra users may keep their Hydra software iconised on their desktop most of the day. From time to time they will call up their personal schedule and enter actual achievement to date.

All of the team member's work may be shown on the diary including project work on many projects; non-project work like meetings, vacations, normal everyday operations, training and other absences as well as personal notes. Double clicking an item in the diary allows the user to record actual work done along with any notes and comments. Right clicking allows the user to report time that was not planned, planned outside this period or time spent on new tasks. New tasks are brought to the immediate attention of the manager on timesheet submission.

Records of actual achievements are automatically transferred from the diary to the timesheet and these can then be amended and completed. Individuals have the opportunity to estimate the remaining effort, making plans much more realistic than traditional methods such as estimating % complete or the project manager having to estimate remaining effort. Timesheets may be submitted for any period and periods may vary per plan. Users also have the ability to raise issues against tasks they are working on. These are also escalated to the project managers and added to the project issue register.

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