If a user wants additional time to finish a job, let him use "Extra work" column

It is OK to give a psychological advantage to the resource in opening up about the extra time needed.

But it has the following disadvantages:

• It affects the project's timeline without the PM's knowledge/concurrence.
• It may exceed the resource's allocation period to the project.
• It will delay the dependent tasks, thus affecting the allocation period of the OTHER resources to the project.
• The change of allocation period of all resources will lead to delays in OTHER projects as well.

Thus a casually extended task can have three separate domino effects.

In some organizations there is a matrix reporting (resources report to a manager, but get allocated to different projects, sometimes concurrently).

In such cases the extension affects multiple managers: The current PM, the other affected PMs and the resource manager.
All the managers will have to scramble to take corrective measures.

Thus the tool should not allow a junior employee to set off chain of events across the organization.

In such cases the tool cannot leave this to outside communication channels to settle the issue.
The workflow itself must handle the entire issue of extension.

Hi Babynus,

Congratulations on winning the FIFA cup!

If you review the points I made in this thread, you will realize that there are several major advantages of not letting the resources change the Left figure, and several critical advantages for the business if the extension is brought to the attention of the manager.

Could you please bring in any solution that addresses the points I raised?
IMHO an Extra column is the simplest solution.

Only a yellow card? I expected a red card (immediate elimination from the game!)