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Capacity Planning

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Your budget is fixed. Do you have the right skills mix to meet your objectives?

 

Your budget is cut. Which resources will you keep, and which will have the least impact if they go?

 

Your company is growing. What are the hiring profiles that will make the greatest short-term (or long-term) impact?

  • PDWare capacity manager produces a staffing change model that reduces skills with over supply and adds skills with unsatisfied demand. The user can then fine tune the model and apply it to the current resource pool.
  • If you are reducing costs, PDWare will suggest a staffing profile that does the least damage to your business results.
  • If you are adding staff, PDWare will suggest a plan that satisfies demand as far as possible down your prioritized project portfolio.

The PDWare capacity planning approach

  • Define the planning horizon and set a target for total labor spending (dollars or FTEs)
  • Calculate a model for skill changes by organization and period
  • Recalculate the model based on user adjustments
  • Apply the model to the resource pool adding new "TBH" resources and removing excess resource capacity as defined by the model
  • Save the result to the database as a scenario