On a folio's Staff screen, you can define and manage the composition of the staff members that work on a project.

You can access the Staff screen by clicking Staff in the Folio's main navigation bar. On the Staff screen, you can identify the individuals who are assigned to the project, capture their wages and availability percentage over the course of its execution, and define yet-to-be-filled positions. The Staff screen serves as the staff members dashboard to help in planning work assignments, to see who might currently be overloaded, and to retrieve all sorts of critical resource management information about capacities, efforts, work assignments, overheads, etc.

On the Staff screen, you can you perform many staff member operations, such as using Tempo Teams, importing staff members, adding a staff member, or attaching files to a member.

Viewing the Folio Staff Summary 

The Folio Summary tab provides you with an overview of the current states of this portfolio's staff. The staff activity status and remaining capacity is based on each member's specified availability.

It also displays a Capacity chart that compares the total budgeted effort with either:

1.  The sum of remaining estimates

2. The sum of planned effort (Tempo planned time)

and puts them in contrast with the staff's remaining capacity as defined by staff member's availability.

The Summary also provides a section that allows you to enter notes.

To do so: 

1. Click the Add a note link.

2. Enter the note.

3. Select the Level (Information, warning, success, important).

4. Click the Add Note button.

Your note will be added to the Summary:

Viewing the Staff Members

The main part of the screen is the Staff browser where all staff members are listed and grouped by their titles or roles. It offers two different views between which you can toggle using the toggle button located at the top left of the staff browser (): Browser View and Timeline View. The staff browser also allows you to perform a number of operations on the staff members and gives access to the Worklogs Inspector, a powerful tool to explore work logged by the members and populate the staff.

Browser View

The Browser View is displayed when the left part of the toggle button is pressed . It shows each staff member's current wage and availability percentage, as well as a bar showing their workload level. It also displays the overall current average cost rate of the staff members, and the average cost rate of each group of members with a given role.

Average cost rates

The current average cost rate is shown for the overall staff members and for each role, at the right of each group. These average cost rates are weighted averages of the current cost rate of active members (as determined by their current availability ratio defined in their Availability table), where the weight is the availability percentage. The active members are the members who have a valid cost rate at the present date. Unassigned positions are not taken into account when calculating average cost rates.

Here is an example average cost rate calculation:

Staff members summary information

Staff members are JIRA users who actively work and record hours on the Folio's issues (a.k.a the Folio Scope). Each staff member row in the staff browser shows the following information:

Status color bar

At the extreme left of each staff member row is displayed a colored vertical bar indicating the status of the staff member. The status bar can help identify potential problems.

The color of the bar gives an indication about the folio position's status. The following table explains the signification of each color.

	Active member that has no particular problem detected.
	Member has no current availability and thus is not yet active or has no availability defined inside the Folio's timeframe.
	Member is overloaded.
	Unfulfilled position; a folio position that as not yet been assigned a JIRA user.
	Position is associated with a non-JIRA user.

Avatar

Image representing the staff member, as defined in the associated JIRA user's profile.

Name

Full name of the member. Hovering the name brings up the standard JIRA user popup.

Effective date

Date on which the staff member became active. It is determined by the effective date of the first availability defined for this Folio.

Current cost rate

Cost rate of the member to date.

Overhead

The overhead of a member to date.

Resource Load

A coloured bar widget that shows the allocated hours and the available hours left. If the assigned hours exceed the remaining availability, then a proportional part of the bar is shown in red, indicating that the member is overloaded. Hover the bar to get the precise resource load in hours.

Timeline View

The Timeline View is displayed when the right part of the toggle button is pressed. It shows each staff member's past worked hours and future remaining availability over the Folio's timeframe as an interactive timeline chart. Each bar displayed for a staff member on the timeline reflects an availability period that you defined for that member (see Availability for more details on availability periods and percentages). The future remaining availability of a staff member for each availability period is derived from the availability percentage for that period, and the working days and hours as defined by the Work Schedule of the Folio.

The Staff Members Timeline is divided in two parts by the "Today" marker (displayed as a red vertical line on the chart). All hours shown on the left of the Today marker (past from the Folio start date to today, included) are hours worked by each staff member. Hours shown on bars at the right of the marker (future, until the Folio's end date) indicate the remaining availability of the resource for each availability period. Hovering one of the bars shows the time period corresponding to that bar and the number of either worked hours or remaining availability for that period.

Inactive periods, e.g. periods with an availability percentage are shown as faded gray bars, showing when each staff members is on vacation or when the member's commitment to that project is planned to end.

Editing Availability from the Timeline

Availability displayed in the Timeline View can be selected by clicking them or finding them through the search box at the top left of the staff Browser. When a single availability is selected, the edit and delete actions apply to that specific availability entry. Selecting the edit action on an availability puts the corresponding entry in the Availability table in edition mode on the staff member details column, on the right. Deleting the availability simply removes it and refreshes the timeline. Of course, you can also edit availability using the controls in the staff member details column, as when using the Browser View.

Inspecting Resource Load

Selecting multiple staff members in the staff browser brings up a Resource load inspection panel on the right. The Resource load inspector brings you a lot of visual information on about the work load of the selected members and provides quick links to their current work assignments.

Hiding/Showing Inactive Members

The button located at the top left of the staff screen lets you show or hide inactive members. When at least one member of the staff is currently inactive, meaning he or she is not allocated at the current date, then a numbered blue circle appears at the top right of the button (). The number indicates how many inactive members of the folio's staff currently contains.

Inspecting Worklogs

Clicking on the Worklogs button brings up the Worklogs Inspector, a powerful tool to explore work logged by the members and populate the staff members.

Viewing a Staff Member's Details

Clicking on a staff member row in the Browser View or staff member availability in the Timeline View brings up the staff member details panel on the right-hand side of the screen, showing the detailed information of that member. The staff member details panel is the member's control panel where many important pieces of information are maintained and displayed. It has an action menu (...) in the top right corner providing a list of possible operations of the selected staff member, such as Delete and Edit.

Summary

Staff member summary appears at the top of the details column and shows the staff member's avatar, its full name, its linked Tempo Team if any (or "Folio's Staff" otherwise), and its role in the Folio.

Notifications

Staff member notifications appear under the summary information. Staff member notifications include various informative and warning notifications. Some notifications can be expanded to get more details by clicking the ... icon at the bottom right. Click Less to collapse the details.

Resource load

The Resource load part of the staff member details panel shows information about the current resource's load, availability and work assignments.

Description

A brief description of the member

Availability

Table where are maintained all availability period specifications. For each defined period, it shows the percentage of availability and the corresponding remaining availability in hours. Availability periods are not editable if the staff member is linked to a Tempo Team, in which case they are driven by the member's configuration in the Tempo Team.

Worked hours

Table where are maintained and/or shown all the worked hours by the member since the beginning of the Folio.

Cost rates

Table where are maintained all the cost rates of the member for the duration of the Folio.

Extra Information

Attachments

Attachments associated to the member with optional comments.