Capacity planning scenarios allow you to make informed decisions about resource demands and staffing. Using this tool you can make tentative modifications to team allocations in a scenario context. This means that you can create a scenario and within that scenario you can make temporary changes to your data to see how they affect your overall capacity plan. These temporary changes are never saved or applied to your actual data. They are just used for analysis before making actual changes.
Based on the criteria you enter and update, the capacity planning scenario changes the demand data that is displayed on the page. Filters offer you the ability to exclude or include to-be-hired resources and soft bookings. When the list of investments consists of those you want to include in your capacity planning activities, you can build capacity planning scenarios to study and anticipate utilization.
Capacity planning scenarios are investment aware; the demand from staffing for all investment types (such as projects, assets, and applications) in CA Clarity PPM is counted and displayed when viewing data in the context of a scenario.
A capacity planning scenario is automatically available to all investments; you do not have to manually add those investments to the scenario. You only need to explicitly add the investments to which you want to make tentative modifications.
If any changes are made to an investment while in a scenario, the investment is automatically added to the scenario’s investments list. You can hide an investment from a scenario to display the investment’s original or plan-of-record value. You can also exclude an investment from a scenario to remove it from consideration completely.
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