iSchool Capstone

Resource Management by Smartsheet: Intelligent Team Building and Workload Balancing

Project tags:

business & systems analysis

information behavior & user research

ux & interaction design

Smartsheet Inc. offers a resource planning solution, Resource Management by Smartsheet, and aims to provide intelligent recommendations for staffing work across their customer organizations. Our team, Avatar, focused on defining the best staffing suggestion tool for our sponsor with features that include criteria-based recommendation, staffing needs prediction, experience tracking, and overallocation notification. Our design leverages resourcing data to optimize the utilization of human capital, better predict resource demand for future projects, and reduce dependency on human intervention.

Project participants:

Allison Geary

Informatics

Maria Matlick

Informatics

Teagan Mach

Informatics

Ashley Vo

Informatics