Excel spreadsheet
Available everywhere, maximally flexible, everyone knows it. But: no shared state, no conflict detection, and beyond roughly 20 people across several projects, upkeep becomes a full-time job.
Three ways to schedule your workforce
A spreadsheet, classic project management, or a tool built for workforce scheduling. Each approach has its strength and its limits.
Conventional PM tools
Strong for individual project plans, tasks and deadlines. But they are rarely built for the resource-centric view of who is where, and when, across every project.
TesseraFlow
Built for exactly that view: all resources, all projects, several years in one dense grid, with real-time conflict detection and hosting in Germany.
Why not just Excel or a classic PM tool?
For scheduling in machine & plant engineering, density is what counts.
| Feature | TesseraFlow | Conventional PM tools | Excel spreadsheet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resources and projects in one view Others show only utilisation in percent. TesseraFlow also shows which project someone is on. | Full | Limited | Limited |
| Planning across several years A multi-year overview that stays smooth. Excel slows down, many tools barely show more than a year. | Full | Limited | No |
| Spot conflicts while you move Double bookings, absences and sequence are flagged live, with project context and resolvable right there. | Full | Limited | No |
| Interrupt and resume tasks Pull a person onto another project briefly and resume later, without chopping up the plan. | Full | Limited | No |
| Subtasks right in the plan Plan in phases, manage in detail. Subtasks are built in, no second tool. | Full | Limited | No |
| Adaptable to your industry Colours, row heights, resource groups and holiday periods are freely configurable, right in the settings. | Full | Limited | Limited |
| Role-based views (GDPR) Role-based masking of the views, in Excel everyone sees everything. | Full | Limited | No |
| Hosted in Germany, auditable Servers and data in the EU region, every change in the audit log. | Full | Limited | No |
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