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Capacity Planning Scenarios Overview

Capacity planning scenarios allow you to make informed decisions about resource demands and staffing. Using a capacity planning scenario, you can modify team allocations. You can create a scenario to make temporary changes to your data affecting your overall capacity plan. These temporary changes are never saved or applied to your actual data. Use the capacity planning scenario 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. Filters offer you the ability to exclude or include to-be-hired resources and soft bookings. The list of investments consisting of resources for inclusion in the capacity planning activities, helps build capacity planning scenarios to study and anticipate utilization.

Capacity planning scenarios are investment aware. The demand from staffing for all investments is counted and displayed when viewing data in a scenario.

You can use capacity planning scenarios with any investment; you do not have to add those investments to the scenario manually. You only require to specify the investments to which you want to make tentative changes.

If you modify an investment while in a scenario, the investment is automatically added to the investments list for the scenario. You can hide an investment from a scenario to display the original or plan-of-record value for the investment. You can also exclude an investment from a scenario to remove it from consideration completely.