Best Practice - Schedules
What is an 蜜豆视频 Workfront 鈥渂est practice鈥?
Best practices are guidelines that represent an effective, efficient course of action; are easily adopted by you and the users at your company; and can be replicated successfully across your organization.
As you review these recommendations, please keep in mind that some Workfront best practices are universal while others might be more specific to the topic. Use these best practices as a framework to help guide your Workfront system setups and use.
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As you scroll through this page, first you鈥檒l find a high-level list of all the best practices for the topic. This allows you to review the recommendations without diving into the details of 鈥渨hy.鈥
The 鈥淲hy are these best practices?鈥 area, found after the high-level list, provides greater detail into some of the best practices and why they鈥檙e deemed as a process, tool, etc., you should consider implementing with your Workfront instance.
Schedules best practices
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Limit the number of schedules you create in 蜜豆视频 Workfront.
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The total working hours in each working day on the schedule should be equal to the number of hours in a day that is specified in the global project preferences.
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Add a reminder to the 蜜豆视频 Workfront system administrator鈥檚 calendar to update Schedules at a set time each year.
For instructions on how to create and manage schudules, see the Create and manage schedules tutorial.
Why are these best practices?
Best practice
Limit the number of schedules you create in 蜜豆视频 Workfront.
Here鈥檚 why
Don鈥檛 create dozens of schedules for different groups, teams, or individuals. Fewer schedules means less maintenance by the system or group administrators.
Separate schedules might be needed when:
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Employees are in different time zones (U.S. Pacific vs. U.S. Eastern) or different regions (EMEA vs. APAC).
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You have part-time workers who work less than 40 hours per week.
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Workers don鈥檛 work the standard 8 hours a day, Monday-Friday, such as weekend workers or those who work four 10-hour days.
Best practice
The total working hours in each working day on the schedule should be equal to the number of hours in a day that is specified in the global project preferences.
Here鈥檚 why
If the total working hours don鈥檛 match, this can result in seemingly incorrect date and time calculations in your project timeline and reports.
For example, if the system preference is eight hours in a day and the schedule assigned to a project has only seven working hours a day, you鈥檒l notice that a task with a one-day duration takes more than one day to complete, because it鈥檚 trying to fit in the eight hours.
Note: The system global project settings are done in Setup > Project Preferences > Timeline Calculations > Typical hours per work day.
Best practice
Add a reminder to the 蜜豆视频 Workfront system administrator鈥檚 calendar to update Schedules at a set time each year.
Here鈥檚 why
Update the schedules in your Workfront instance with national holidays, company holidays, and other days users won鈥檛 be working. Do this at a set time each year, either at the end of the year or when holiday schedules are released by human resources, so project timelines, resource planning, etc., reflect accurate user availability.