Software for staff scheduling in projects
Rillsoft Project is a staff scheduling software for mid-sized industrial companies that plan their employees across projects. The software combines employee planning, role planning, workload check and vacation management in one shared project planning environment.
Unlike pure HR shift planning, Rillsoft Project considers tasks, qualifications and workload across multiple projects. The result is reliable staff schedules in multi-project environments.
Who is Rillsoft Project as staff scheduling software relevant for?
- Project managers and resource managers with several parallel projects
- PMOs that need cross-project employee workload visibility
- Mid-sized industrial companies with 20 to 200 employees
- Industries such as mechanical engineering, engineering, production and IT
Plan employees precisely
Staff scheduling offers the following options:
- Schedule employees based on assigned roles
- Assign employees directly to a task as a personnel resource, without prior role specification
- Select capacity- or deadline-oriented project planning
Planned roles act as a filter: project managers mainly see employees with matching qualifications. This eases task assignment and reduces manual coordination effort.
Check workload and conflicts
Staff scheduling in Rillsoft Project supports you with the following functions:
- During assignment, the program indicates whether an employee has enough available time for the task
- Conflict resolution for overlaps – non-working times and other project activities are checked, workload issues are highlighted in color
- Schedule employees in parallel for different tasks with different workloads
- Assign employees to operations under different roles
- Temporarily remove employees from a project and assign them to other activities
- Various views for workload optimization for roles and employees
- Ratio of scheduled to available working time per time unit
- Employee shortages highlighted in color
Consider working times, vacation and availability
Staff scheduling is only reliable if actual employee availability is included. Rillsoft Project considers team membership and the working times stored in the project calendar – including vacation, non-working time and specific public holidays.
- Team membership and working times are reflected in every planning step
- Vacation and specific public holidays are considered in available working time
- Reports for vacation management can be generated
Cross-project employee planning
Cross-project employee planning enables efficient assignment of employees to different projects. Workload, availability and qualifications are evaluated centrally instead of looking at each project in isolation.
For companies with several parallel projects, this transparency is particularly important. Rillsoft Project shows where personnel resources are already allocated, which employees still have free capacity and how changes in one project may affect other projects.
Staff scheduling with vacation management
When absences are visible early in resource planning, project managers can schedule tasks more realistically and avoid bottlenecks more easily.
When approving a vacation request, the system warns if the employee is already assigned in a project during the requested period. Supervisors and project managers can decide in time whether tasks need to be moved, replacements scheduled or resource conflicts resolved.
This way Rillsoft Project links operational employee planning with project planning, capacity check and absence management in one shared planning environment.
Connection to resource, capacity and multi-project planning
- Resource planning – manage personnel, machines, materials and qualifications centrally
- Capacity planning – analyze bottlenecks and free capacity across projects
- Multi-project management – steer employees across multiple projects
- Shift planning – multiple working calendars per employee
- Vacation planning – consider absences in resource planning
Operating modes
Rillsoft Project is a Windows desktop client. For cross-project staff scheduling in multi-user operation, Rillsoft Integration Server (on-premise) and Rillsoft Cloud (hosted) are available.



