Resource Capacity Planning

Many services departments face unpredictable workloads, where new projects and tasks can arrive unexpectedly. Without visibility of the skills capacity to take on this work, Managers can easily over commit and fail to deliver on time.

Resource capacity planning shows the skill capacity to take on new work and, by layering proposed tasks on top of committed work, highlight skills bottlenecks and any spare capacity.

Within Innate, everyone gets this visibility; they can easily see the bottlenecks, spare capacity and identify feasible start dates. Each person’s commitments are taken into account, including both project and operational tasks, such as support and maintenance etc.

As new tasks are entered, either in the browser or from Microsoft Project, the skills capacity is immediately visible. All can see the spare capacity and bottlenecks and drill down to look at each person’s current commitments.

Adding New Work Requests

Within Innate:

In either case, resource assignments can be made using a generic (skill, team or role), or named individual.

The spreadsheet style interface enables profiles of work to be easily entered and adjusted.

The spreadsheet view shows the work profile in units for the Innate project and the total rows underneath highlight any resource bottleneck, e.g. Analysts are in short supply for January. This is key information for resource capacity planning.

Resource Capacity Planning and Scenario Analysis

Changing priorities or the arrival of new work can unbalance the workload, introducing new resource bottlenecks and the risk of delay. Innate gives you scenario analysis capabilities so that alternative ways forward can be easily assessed and communicated.

Each scenario is a complete copy of the live data, where changes do not impact the live data until the scenario is accepted.