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KentPa
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October 18, 2017
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Capacity vs Demand Chart

  • October 18, 2017
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Hello,

We are beginning our journey with Workfront and would really like to get some stronger and more detailed insights from the resource planner.

What we would like to see is a 18 month window (6 months historical, 12 months forecast) of our demand (what is planned out for our particular team) showing where that time is being spent, maybe a program, portfolio and project level grouping. [Area Chart]

Combined with this is the actual hours submitted for the last 6 months again grouped in the same way. [Bar Chart]

Over the top, we would like to see how many hours we have available for FTE's [Red Line] and Contractors [Blue Line]

This then maps out as per the example:

With that chart being dynamic, and us using a project template, we can then get a strong view for the demand that we are being asked to deliver and the capacity to actually deliver this.

In the new resource planner you do have a majority of the items required to build this report. and I think this chart should take place above the table view, like the agile burn down charts.

Thanks

    23 replies

    Vazgen_Babayan
    Vazgen_Babayan
    Employee
    August 11, 2021

    Hi everyone,


    This was merged with the following idea: Link

    Please review that idea for more details and further updates.

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    RichardHu1
    New Participant
    December 6, 2019

    Like many others here, I need to run 100’s of exports that generate over 6 million rows of data, only to get 3000 rows of data that’s needed to generate 3 lines on a graph for plan, available and demand.


    WF does not seem to be a scalable tool for capacity planning and is a our serious blocker for our company.


    Please make changes and improvements to the export and resource planning areas immediately.


    Rich

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    RichardHu
    New Participant
    July 30, 2019

    Like many others here, I need to run 100’s of exports that generate over 6 million rows of data, only to get 3000 rows of data that’s needed to generate 3 lines on a graph for plan, available and demand.


    WF does not seem to be a scalable tool for capacity planning and is a our serious blocker for our company.


    Please make changes and improvements to the export and resource planning areas immediately.


    Rich

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    DannyHu2
    New Participant
    June 7, 2019

    ‚Would really like this progressed - we are continuing to do this work manually (exporting and manipulating on a monthly basis in Excel). Would add so much value and save time. Please keep voting on this community! Please contact myself in relation to this idea as Kent Packman no longer works at our company and won't be contactable about this.

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    RobinBl
    New Participant
    February 14, 2019

    Why say you're doing it back in November and then say you're not 3 months later?

    Getting seriously bored with constantly exporting data especially as I'm seeing alternatives that offer graphical drag/drop resource management out of the box.

    D- (It would have been an F only you told us you weren't doing it instead of keeping us hanging from November's message)

    Hopefully in 3 months time it flips back to being on the roadmap again...

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    AvinderMa
    New Participant
    February 14, 2019

    It's very dissappointing to hear that this isn't on the 12 month road. Having to export the data into Excel to put together a capacity/demand plan is really frustating. I'm sure the others who have commented in this group will be disappointed. We even spoke to Alex Shootman about this idea at the Workfront networking event in December and he agreed it seems like a good idea...

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    SuzyPa
    New Participant
    February 14, 2019

    Vazgen,

    Thanks for the update - It would be helpful to understand the Resource Management roadmap - Is there a review session scheduled soon?

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    Exp_-_VazgenBa
    New Participant
    February 14, 2019

    Hi everyone,

    Thanks for your feedback on this idea! While we continue our focus on Resource Management functionality improvements, visualization enhancements are currently not planned for the next 12 months, hence I'm marking this idea as Not Planned. However, please continue to add your comments and use cases and we may revisit this decision in the future. Thank you again!

    Vazgen

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    Exp_-_VazgenBa
    New Participant
    November 23, 2018
    Thank you for the feedback! This is currently Planned for our ongoing improvements on data presentation in Resource Management tools.
    Please stay tuned to further updates on the topic in our quarterly roadmap calls.
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    VincentBr
    New Participant
    September 20, 2018

    Hi

    yes we are really insterested by this idea.

    We expect this in Workfront since a long time

    A chart with

    - user involved in a project

    - period week, month, quarter

    - actual and plan days

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