Resource Guru Erfahrungen

Simple and very easy to use resource scheduling\tracking app.

Kommentare: Resource Guru is a great resource scheduling application for a simple use cases. It does what it promises perfectly. The UI is very friendly and pleasant - make for a great user experience. I used it to track the tasks for my team for almost a year. I would have kept using it but the company mandated a different tracking system and I had to abandon it. I like that Resource Guru'a focus on their product and customer service. I also appreciated the slow introduction of new features. Overall, very pleasant and satisfactory experience with a great application.

Vorteile:

- Ease of use - Very pleasant UI - Flexibility

Nachteile:

- Lack of features. The application does the simple scheduling\tracking perfectly though. - Copy\paste of resource tasks was not available at the time

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Hub Planner und Float

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Resource Guru: The balance of features, ease-of-use, UI and the price.

Simple and to the point - Resource Gu does the one thing we need most, and it does it extremely well

Kommentare: It has been a significant enhancement o our workflow. Our prior use of our CRM system to do what Resource Guru does was costing us at least a full day per week. Now we get it all done in an hour our tow.

Vorteile:

Simplicity and focus. Resource Guru solves one problem, a problem that is key to our business - which is project resource assignment and scheduling. It does it quickly, and easily. Our prior tool required us to understand a complex CRM system with multiple interrelated functions. Resource Guru gives us the availability, assignment and schedule tools we need to deliver our projects without needless overhead.

Nachteile:

I would like more user defined fields when we assign a resource to a project. We assign a project sales phase type to each project, and we assign an individual billing rate to each resource, which can be different for each day of the project. We currently do that using a strict taxonomy in the "Notes" field and them use an Excel macro to parse that information out for sales and revue forecasting. While this doe take a bit of management and programming magic - it is still orders fo magnitude less complicated that it was previously when we managed this data in our CRM system. Having those filed would just make our lives all that much simpler.

Happy Project Manager

Kommentare: The customer service has been great and adopting the tool among our team has been very smooth and easy!

Vorteile:

Easy to use, highly visual, quick to update.

Nachteile:

The utilization report doesn't seem to reflect available billable hours when taking PTO/OOO out of the equation. This results in our utilization typically looking lower than it is in reality.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Float

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Resource Guru: Easy to adopt; highly visual; relatively low-medium cost.

Glorified spreadsheet

Kommentare: Causes more problems than it solves. We used to use a spreadsheet, it was much better than this.

Vorteile:

Nothing at all. It has no redeeming qualities.

Nachteile:

Allows you to book time without tasks. When asked to change this was told couldn't because some companies want that function, ie it isn't an option as it should be. The drop downs are fiddle and make it easy to select a blank, but doesn't warn you. Can't toggle between scrolling list and typing to search without cl king out of area. You have a set number of hours per day you need to book but it doesn't highlight those that are short- you have to hover to see remaining time but that function doesn't work properly, resulting in multiple clicks to get it to trigger. Colour by project doesn't actually do it, I'm on 6 projects yet only see 2 colours. Can push to calendar but not pull- useless function as meetings are booked in calendar to allow invites, you want guru to pull that data in to autofill. Though it is web based it is impossible to use on a mobile. The popups are always off screen, making it impossible to use - mobile friendly websites have been around for a very long time, lazy to not have it here, particularly as would allow people who are on the road to log their time on he go. Not worth the hassle even if free.

Nice scheduling tool!

Kommentare: Happy to use it.

Vorteile:

Whole team's activities visible at a glance, user friendly and easy to browse around (past and future dates). Thanks.

Nachteile:

Does not work so well on my phone's browser.

Extremely handy software, easy to use, visibly appealing, great to manage and schedule.

Kommentare: Positive, I do enjoy managing RG for our company. My company want us to migrate and start using the schedule planned for Office 365, but I had to push back and explain that this software is up to date, already does everything we need it too and Office 365 still has a long way to go before we can use it for what we want. It's safe to stick with RG that we know how to work, we know what it does and what i can't do and it works, no need to change something that isnt broken.

Vorteile:

I like the appearance of the software - its clear, self explanatory, easy to navigate, see the bigger picture to jiggle schedule resource about, etc. I like how easy and quickly the support team are there to assist when needed. I like how it shows you who has booked what and the daily reminders via email of what is coming up, etc.

Nachteile:

It isn't a negative but I would like to have a scheduling log, to see at what time and date did someone book a slot onto the schedule. I manage the Creative Studio, depending how many campaigns and the urgency in hitting these deadlines, I need to keep track of the entire departments availability, knowing when i can move things around in order to deliver last min projects. Only myself should have booking access, but I currently share it with Creative Directors, so they can schedule in my absence, but I can't see when they have booked them in so i can keep track. Is this something you could implement, please? Thanks,

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Microsoft 365

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Resource Guru: Office 365 is still a very new software that requires lots of updates and features adding to it, that yourselves already provide.

Some thoughts

Kommentare: ok

Vorteile:

Relatively easy to use

Nachteile:

Can't do everything I want to, or if it can I can't find it.

Great tool for resource planning

Kommentare: Overall, RG was a game-changer for us. Since we have implemented it, we got a better overview of our projects and became able to plan ahead and more long-term.

Vorteile:

The product is very easy to use, intuitive, and fast. We love the ability to zoom in and out and have different views of our timeline.

Nachteile:

What I (currently) miss most is the ability to quickly update the schedule. For example, to select multiple "tasks" for one employee and move them 1 or more days forward, in other words, to shift or postpone someone's entire schedule. We change schedules quite frequently so it would be easier for us to have this enabled. But I've heard that this would be possible down the road.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Toggl Track

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Resource Guru: We wanted something specific for resource planning, not for task management, and the others we considered were more leaning toward task management.

Guru Resource

Kommentare: Very pleasant and quit helpful in scheduling with others.

Vorteile:

Access to dates for my schedule aswell as other fellow employees

Nachteile:

Nothing in particular, everything has been an ease of us platform

Dynconsult 18072024

Vorteile:

it is easy to use and with fast visual management

Nachteile:

difficulty to link guru with an other tool

Resource Guru is a great online tool that does a perfect job in scheduling resources on projects!

Kommentare: Overall, we are very happy with the tool. Over the course of years, we had to find work arounds and come up with creative solutions (within what's possible in Resource Guru) but having found those solutions, we are getting what we need from Resource Guru.

Vorteile:

Generally speaking the UX/UI of this platform is very user friendly and easy to learn/use. I love the color coding feature (that can be used for marking projects, resources, etc) and the recently added filtering by the "Resource Booker" is very useful too. Last but not least, I like that Resource Guru keep this product alive as every once in a while they publish new features and enhancements.

Nachteile:

Resource Guru for our organization does a great job of helping us schedule resources of projects over time. So I can't really think of major issues. But one minor pain point is once we create a "non-billable" project and schedule resources on that project. Often and after a while (usually when a project is signed and official) we have to change that project to "billable", but although we do that, we still need to manually update each and every resource booking under the "Schedule" section and mark each booking to be "billable". Ideally and if we change the billability on a project level, all those resource bookings should inherit the change that was applied to the project.

The best stand alone solution for resource management

Kommentare: We're using ResourceGuru for weekly planing, when we plan the up-coming week for every creative and strategy members. And every day, through a short stand-up meeting, we review the daily plan of everyone to make sure everything is clear. Thanks to the simplicity of the UI we can easily replan on the fly in case of project changes.

Vorteile:

UX is awesome Simplicity of the solution.

Nachteile:

The one-side only integration with Google Calendar. If we plan meeting in people's calendar, ideally it populates ResourceGuru (and would place it in queue in case of conflict/overtime). The integration with other software, like Harvest, is inexistent, isn't it?

Perfect for small business

Kommentare: Overall we love it and it works perfectly for our small company (i.e., 35 people)

Vorteile:

The software is intuitive and very useful for scheduling people to travel on projects, indicate time off, and let people know where you are each day.

Nachteile:

I don't like that you can't organize your resources on your own. They are all alphabetical so we have to put the same letter at the beginning of each person in a group so they are grouped together on the schedule. Not a huge deal but seems a little odd for that the be the default and can't change it.

Fantastic Tool

Kommentare: It's just great. It's made my role so much easier.

Vorteile:

The ease of use. It's helped me create buy-in among other departments internally with regards to schedule-driven process, whilst enabling everyone to maintain a proactive view on our resourcing capabilities (which ultimately informs everything else from our commercial functions, employment plans, etc).

Nachteile:

I'd maybe tidy-up the 'Project' and 'Clients' tabs a little bit. Maybe introduce some filters to help you search for groups of each? That's about my only complaint, and it's not a big one by any means.

Review from a user perspective

Kommentare: Resource guru has been a bit of a god send as both a user checking when you're scheduled in for work but also as an admin to have big visibility of what everyone is working on and when.

Vorteile:

Scheduling is really easy to do on the web version, I can book, amend or cancel resource in a matter of moments and easily drop and drag to move things around.

Nachteile:

The mobile version on web browser can be a little clunky, it would be good to have an app version to make checking scheduling on the go (whilst at external meetings etc) easier to use, the same for booking resource on the go, its almost impossible to do so on mobile

Provides Great Resource Management!

Kommentare: With many staff members doing field work, Resource Guru helps greatly with schedule planning and tracking where staff are at any given time.

Vorteile:

This software is easy to learn and use. We can see the availability of resources at a glance, and it's simple to make any edits to current entries as needed. The option to add personal photos for resources is fun to use and adds a bit of personalization to each resource.

Nachteile:

When choosing a date to enter information, we need to scroll over the calendar instead of clicking, because clicking on dates will automatically trigger a window for entering new information.

We got more than what we expected!

Kommentare: We've solved our equipment booking issue and couldn't be happier!

Vorteile:

The interface is intuitive and easy to adopt into our daily routine. Our company has a collection of instruments that were being double booked or under utilized, because our previous scheduling method was murky and unclear. Now, we've avoided double bookings and can complete client work more efficiently. The most exciting thing about this software is that we keep finding ways to enhance our understanding of our operations (materials and labor costs, in particular) as we use the software. This will help us not only get client work done on time, but give us a more accurate representation of overall project costs.

Nachteile:

I would like a feature that allows us to upload a protocol or document to the booking.

Resource scheduling never easier

Kommentare: It has make resourcing scheduling so much easier. Staff knows what they are supposed to be working on and managers can plan properly resources and understand conflicts or overtime required to complete projects on time.

Vorteile:

It is a very easy tool to schedule resources. you can extend tasks across weeks, split tasks, duplicate tasks across different team members. It is visual and easy to use. It allow us to understand who is working on what projects. You can customise and filter resources by teams and you have a reporting tool where you can see by week how is your resource utilisation.

Nachteile:

the Zoom -+ button will only show present week or next 6 weeks. It would be good if you can select how many weeks you want to see, between 1-6 weeks to visualise on the Schedule tab. sometimes when adding many tasks on a day for one resource, you create overtime unnecessarily it would be good to have a button/option to distribute same amount of time to all the tasks for a day, taking the amount of hours the resource works a day. Reporting- when reporting who is working on what project, it would be useful to have the percentages of time spent on each project.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Float

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Resource Guru: value for money

Easy-to-use, convenient scheduling software

Kommentare: We schedule all our daily tasks with Resource Guru.

Vorteile:

+ flexible scheduling features + clear and easily readable UI

Nachteile:

- if a day has 8h30m available, and 8h15m are scheduled, and another task is added with a 30m length, it shows up as "30m on waiting list and 15m free" - in my opinion, it would make more sense to show up as "15m on waiting list and 0m free"

Maintaining High Resource Utilization through Coordination and Resource Guru

Kommentare: Overall Resource Guru has significantly contributed to our ability to schedule, review and plan our resources. We have increased our overall utilization of resources by using this product.

Vorteile:

We like the ability to visualize our employee utilization on a company-wide basis while being able to generate other utilization views by department and resource type. This helps us determine any utilization gaps and plan for cross utilization to ensure overall high utilization of our resources.

Nachteile:

I would like to see a few more customization features for how the system currently treats over-bookings. We would like to be able to over-book resources and it show their utilization at 100%+ rather than it showing the conflict and a lower utilization until the over-allocation is corrected.

usage of GURU

Kommentare: I do find it easy to use, very intuitive and clear interfaces. I do do the inductions of new 'Client managers' on how to view their requested resources and everybody likes it

Vorteile:

The simplicity of the usage and interface

Nachteile:

I could not edit information of members of the team once they are listed.

Resource Guru

Kommentare: Really enjoyed it, easy system to work on very self explanatory

Vorteile:

Friendly, very easy to use, and adaptable to my needs. Really enjoy the new things that come out regularly

Nachteile:

Integration with other apps No undo feature

Great Tool

Kommentare: it have been very positive. I implemented this across or company to get some visibility on our resource allocation. it have worked well and is not very expensive.

Vorteile:

very easy to use and the calander view is great give me a sense of what is going on 2, 3, 4 weeks out.

Nachteile:

would like to have a feature that allows the employee to be able to mark a task or a project complete, which would than send a notification back to me or the PM that they are available to do additional works.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Float und monday.com

Gründe für den Wechsel zu Resource Guru: functionality, easy of use than the price.

A great way of organising your day

Vorteile:

That you can easily move jobs around if they need to change and can book off holiday time and meeting time so that you don't overbook yourself.

Nachteile:

The waiting time bit could be better if time is overbooked - doesn't allow for different lengths of working days.

Resource Guru: An Easy-to-Use Resource Management Tool

Kommentare: Overall, my experience with Resource Guru was positive. The software was easy to use, intuitive, and provided me with a powerful suite of tools to help me manage my team's resources.

Vorteile:

I liked the fact that Resource Guru was incredibly easy to use and allowed me to quickly and intuitively manage my team's resources. The software also allowed me to easily customize the way I view and organize resource data, which was very useful for staying organized.

Nachteile:

One thing I disliked about Resource Guru was that it had a limited selection of integrations. This made it difficult for me to connect the software to other applications I used for project management. Additionally, there were some features that I had to pay extra for, which I felt was not ideal.