RBS and Timesheet approvals

[bushie_40]

Hi,

I have set a simple RBS structure based on the organization hierarchy
..... Basically, we have a CEO, and 4 Department Managers. The 4
managers report to the CEO and the employees of each dept report to
their respective dept manager.

What I want to do is setup timesheet approvals based on this. We want
the CEO to be only approve timesheets of his direct reports (his 4
managers) and each dept manager to approve the timesheets of their
direct reports (the dept employees). The CEO would like to be able to
go and view department employee timesheets but not receive
notifications or approval requests.

The RBS consists of COMPANY (which only the CEO belongs to), then
COMPANY.DEPT1, COMPANY.DEPT2, COMPANY.DEPT3, and COMPANY.DEPT4 (which
each dept manager belongs to), and finally COMPANY.DEPTX.STAFF (which
each dept employee belongs to).

Firstly, does this RBS structure make sense, based on what I want to
accomblish. Secondly, I find the security groups a bit confusing in
trying to do this. Who should belong to Executives, and who should
MyDirectReports be applied to, etc?

Thanks,

Paul

 

[Brian K - Project MVP]

Hi,

I have set a simple RBS structure based on the organization hierarchy
.... Basically, we have a CEO, and 4 Department Managers. The 4
managers report to the CEO and the employees of each dept report to
their respective dept manager.

What I want to do is setup timesheet approvals based on this. We want
the CEO to be only approve timesheets of his direct reports (his 4
managers) and each dept manager to approve the timesheets of their
direct reports (the dept employees). The CEO would like to be able to
go and view department employee timesheets but not receive
notifications or approval requests.

The RBS consists of COMPANY (which only the CEO belongs to), then
COMPANY.DEPT1, COMPANY.DEPT2, COMPANY.DEPT3, and COMPANY.DEPT4 (which
each dept manager belongs to), and finally COMPANY.DEPTX.STAFF (which
each dept employee belongs to).

Firstly, does this RBS structure make sense, based on what I want to
accomblish. Secondly, I find the security groups a bit confusing in
trying to do this. Who should belong to Executives, and who should
MyDirectReports be applied to, etc?

Thanks,

Paul

That is not how it works currently. The approval is the job of the
person that assigned the tasks in Project Pro. It is theoretically
possible to have a custom developed solution that would change this but
it would require some serious exploration to see if it was actually
possible.