Welcome to our fortnightly showcase, full of release information and early looks at upcoming developments for the fortnight from 11/06 to 22/06!
Early access continues
Super managers familiarise themselves before their core teams
DONE
- Initial 7 customers granted access – June 6th
- 390 super managers granted access – June 19th
DOING
- General managers from group 2 granted access – June 26th
- Working to engage more feedback
- Early access expanded based on feature set & user type
- Cont. polish & fixes prior to public release
More employees, fill-in finder – released
Single UX and workflow for finding an employee
WHAT
- A new consistent experience between more employees, offer, offer review, batch assign & future state bulk edit
- Enables managers to fill shifts when suitable ‘smart suggestions’ are not available
WHY
- Essential feature prior to NRB general release
- Currently there are a mix of experiences for finding an employee (more employees, fill-in finder & batch shift)
- Optimise the employee selection process through one UX pattern
Roster actions – released
Ready to action information
WHAT
- Modular action cards shown in edit & info panels
- Actions covered include swap, cover, drop, shift confirmation & fill-ins
- ‘What if’ impact analysis shows the outcome on cost & compliance if request approved
WHY
- Increased awareness of impacts that don’t align with business objectives
- Future state ‘To-do’ list will optimise manager workflow – everything requiring attention in one centralised location
- Essential feature prior to NRB general release
Qualification adherence – released
Assisting rostering managers to make compliant decisions
WHAT
- Blocking shift drag & drop due to qualifications
- Visual signals for unqualified employees & roles
WHY
- Guides rostering managers to make compliant decisions
- Essential feature prior to NRB general release
Grouped shifts – in development
Efficient rostering for heavy workloads
WHAT
- ‘Grouped shifts’ which allow identical shifts to be bulk created & managed through single actions
WHY
- Our opportunity to iron out creases in the current process
- Shortcuts rostering workflow for users rostering very similar shifts
- Leverages the UX of more employees allowing a single panel for multi-assign & multi-edit
- Future state of unlinking shifts has been considered to allow flexibility
- Enables us to move batch users across to the new roster builder sooner
Roster health – in design
Define & promote business objectives
WHY
- Blend business objectives into everyday rostering
- Create alignment between your organisation and your rostering managers
- Pick & choose health metrics that matter to you
- Define 2 tiers of health, low and critical, within each health metric
- Enterprise level configuration of each metric so you can make it your own
- Don’t have a metric you want? Custom built metrics available and embedded all the way through from rostering to reporting.
Roster health bar – in development
Define & promote business objectives
WHAT
- A high level ‘health’ status for an entire roster
- Individual metrics highlighting issues
- Navigation between modes & springboard to triage issues to correct health
Weather – in development
Insightful weather to help you roster
WHAT
- A revitalised weather bar in the new roster builder
- Detailed weather information included in day & hour info panels
WHY
- 70% of existing customers accounts use this feature
- Weather is an important factor in predicting demand for many businesses
- Brings life, personality & colour to the new roster builder
Smart shift fill prototype – in development
The first steps to auto smart filling of empty shifts
WHAT
- A proof of concept showcasing bulk shift fill capabilities for a single roster
- A rule & penalty based algorithm
- A full scenario based algorithm resulting in healthy rosters, rather than simply individually healthy shifts
WHY
- Prototyping will create a clear understanding of effort required. Especially when it comes to distilling already configured Ento awards into shift fill rules
- Will enable early delivery of shift fill with the implementation of limits rules
- Automated shift fill currently an expectation within workforce management deals
- Future state will allow smart fill to be utilised:
- On-demand or automated within roster creation processes.
- For single shifts or bulk
- In a ‘what if’ scenario to understand the impact of things like shift swaps.
Shift tags & additional shift styles – in development
Quickly identify your important shifts
WHAT
- Coloured tags to identify ‘On call’ & ‘Call out’ shifts
- Custom tags to signify associated custom data
WHY
- Allow easy identification of other shift types for managers
- Flexible ability to ‘tag’ shifts with data important while rostering or retrospectively reviewing rosters
Other features
Roster from outside area – released
Filters within ‘more employees’ to access extra employees
Shift custom data – in development
Custom data management as part of shift creation. Allows customers utilising this feature to use the new roster builder
Penetration test – completed
3rd party application and infrastructure penetration testing, conducted periodically to ensure continued security
