Hi!
I manage the portfolio of a small team of 10 developers, roughly divided into 3 teams based on the technologies they specialize in (Assume A, B, C). I am trying to work with Advanced Roadmaps to achieve a decent capacity planning (and even auto-scheduling) but I have a small problem: In every project the team is dynamic.
For instance, there can be a team with 3 people, 1 from each team (A,B,C). Other times, a project take a couple of people only from team A, and other times from A and B (you get the idea, there are all possible combinations).
As a result, separating them into teams based on specializations does not work. I thought of making a team out of each person, but it won't allow me to put two teams for a task (as far as I see).
Any suggestions on how to manage Capacity planning in such scenarios?
Much appreciated!
Hi @Alex Osana
If you consider using another plugins you may try a resource planning plugin ActivityTimeline. Plugin has a Functional (Dynamic) team functionality where people is formed automatically based on either its position or skillset.
You can trial and check if this works for you. Hope it helps.
Thanks a lot Nataliya. I was suprised to see we have it already activated, so I will give it a shot! Thanks!
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@Alex Osana You're welcome! If you have any additional requirements please feel free to ask me. Glad to help!
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Hi @Alex Osana
I guess it depends on whether...
I feel based on the description above it's the former - which could make things difficult for you as your current "teams" aren't really teams, if they can be spliced in many different ways depending on the Project.
I think it's important to either...
Personally, I think the former works better as it will plan capacity across the Teams based on their involvement, compared to the Team's overall workload. I also think it better recognises Team changes - eg. annual leave, sick leave, resignations, etc.
Ste
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Thanks for the quick response Ste!
A lot of useful information, I will try to test your ideas, although I think It migh not give me the solution I actually need. The solution to have a new team per project sounds probaby closer to what we need. The only issue here is that a person can be in more that 1 teams and thus capacity planning may not really take this under consideration.
In any case I will try and see if any of the above works. Thanks!
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