An administrative assignment represents a non-work activity and is tracked against an administrative project (also referred to as an indirect project). You can use administrative assignments to block off time on your resource schedules. The following examples demonstrate the functionality of administrative assignments:

• Vacation time

• Internal training

• Project management duties

• Personal holiday

• Sick time

• Jury duty

Creating administrative assignments is similar to creating regular assignments on a delivery project with one distinction, you use an administrative project. Administrative assignments also require approval.

Administrative assignments are not included in the domain of the delivery team as these assignments are typically tracked on an indirect or administrative project. Administrative projects can have project managers who manage these assignments, but having a project manager is not a requirement.

You may want to track such assignments because they consume the work hours of your resources, and therefore, affect availability, financial forecasting, and resource utilization.

For more information about administrative projects, see the discussion of the indirect project type in Project Type.