A virtual member is a placeholder resource for your projects. It is not connected to a LiquidPlanner login. Here are some reasons for using a virtual member:
- If you are evaluating or implementing LiquidPlanner, you might not be ready to invite your team into the workspace yet. But you can start to build out your projects and assign work to virtual members as placeholders for your real team members.
- Virtual members can represent an external resource that owns tasks within your project, such as a contractor or vendor.
- Virtual members can be used to represent work assigned to a machine or non-person resource that completes work within a project.
Keep in mind virtual members are not intended to be be a long-term replacement for people who could otherwise be real members. We don’t encourage using them to support centralized project control. We have designed LiquidPlanner to support our strong belief that direct team engagement is a key to project success!