What We'll Cover

  • Introduction to Hour Types

    Get started with an overview of the hour types in Kantata, and explore how your organization can benefit from tracking, managing, and optimizing the time spent on projects.

  • Allocated, Scheduled, & Actual Hours

    Learn about allocated, scheduled, and actual hours and how your organization can leverage them at different stages of your resourcing process.

  • Hour Type Best Practices

    Learn some of the best practices for using estimated, allocated, and scheduled hours to automate and streamline resourcing in Kantata.

Course Description

Expected Duration: Approximately 45 minutes

Tracking, managing, and optimizing the time resources spend on projects and tasks gives you valuable visibility into projects, and data you can trust. This course will cover how to leverage hour types in Kantata to enable your organization to make accurate allocations of the time needed for current projects, ensure that your teams are scheduled and utilized at an optimal level, and generate more accurate data for estimating the resources needed for future projects.

In addition to the readings, resources, and demo videos, this course also includes hands-on labs and activities. Please note that it is recommended that you either complete the labs from a demo account or make sure to delete any information that may be on your organizational account.

Course curriculum

  • 1
    Introduction to Hour Types
  • 2
    Allocated, Scheduled, & Actual Hours
  • 3
    Hour Type Best Practices
  • Course Overview & Learning Goals Module 1: Overview and Resources Scenario: Aligning Allocated and Scheduled Hours Reading: Introduction to Hour Types Reading: Task Estimated Hours Activity: Overview of Task Estimated Hours Reading: Resource Estimated Hours Demo: Resource Estimated Hours Check-In: What Key Questions Were Answered?
  • Module 2: Overview and Resources Reading: Allocated vs. Scheduled Hours Reading: Allocated Hours Activity: Overview of Allocated Hours Reading: Scheduled & Actual Hours Activity: Overview of Scheduled Hours Demo: Managing Scheduled Hours in the Resource Center Activity: Stay Connected on the Kantata Community Check Your Knowledge: Allocations vs. Scheduled Hours
  • Module 3: Overview and Resources Reading: Best Practices for Optimizing Your Processes with Automated Resourcing Tools Demo: Creating Allocations from Scheduled Hours Demo: Creating Allocations from Resource Estimated Hours Lab: Leveraging Hour Types Check Your Knowledge: Case Study Scenarios Survey: Course Feedback

Course Pricing

Purchase this training course and start learning today! Please contact your Client Success Manager to purchase multiple passes for your organization.