Assess a rostering platform through everyday tasks

Choose a task your team does every day. Follow its information, checks and output through the platform. That reveals more than a feature name.

People and teams

Check how units, teams, employee records and contractual information are maintained. Establish which system owns each record and how changes reach the rostering process. Confirm the scope of any HR integration.

Competency management

Test how qualifications, requirements and validity periods affect assignment eligibility. Include expiry and renewal cases, and distinguish the software’s eligibility calculation from a licensing authority’s decisions.

Leave and staff requests

Follow a request from submission through review and approval. Check allowances, availability, permissions and how an approved change appears in the roster.

Demand and position planning

Define staffing requirements by period, role and qualification. For ATC, examine how sectors, configurations and opening times connect to the working positions that need coverage.

Reporting and payroll preparation

Review the reports needed to compare attendance, overtime and roster changes. Confirm export fields, closing procedures and the interface with the customer’s payroll system.

Staff access

Ask employees to find their published roster, submit a request and follow its status. Check the available mobile workflows, notification settings and connection requirements.

Roster generation and review

Use representative demand and rules to assess how the engine generates alternatives and reports violations. Planners should be able to explain the configured checks and review the result before publication.

SkyRoster uses constraint optimisation for this task. It does not learn scheduling rules from customer rosters, and a score does not itself establish legal compliance or fitness for duty.

Use the requirements matcher to identify relevant SkyRoster capabilities, then test the workflows with the vendor-question checklist.