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Created by Robert Bredin
Created on Jan 6, 2020

Parallel capacity planning and resource based capacity threshold

The capacity planning is a great addition for the majority of our teams. However, we have one team that is vital to our planning that is not able to work items sequentially. We have migrated their manual process of tracking capacity for task for their team from an Excel workbook to an Aha! Workspace. Moving to Aha where the rest of our departments organize their work allows us to see the full picture of the company tasks an road map. 

 

Since we are a smaller company we have to prioritize and assign multiple Engineering tasks in this workspace to individuals across a period of time. We need the ability to have a start and end date for a task (feature) and assign the hours across each day of that period. This will allow us assign multiple tasks concurrently and see their correct capacity level at day/week/month level. Because capacity is only calculated sequentially today we are not able to get an accurate representation of a team members capacity for this team. Along with the ability to assign task hours across a period of time we would also need the ability to set a resources capacity level. We may have a resource that is only able to devote 20 hours per week on the tasks. It would be great to be able to see if they are at full capacity based on an individually set capacity threshold.

 

Example of a task:
Resource A has a task with a start date of 1/1 and end date of 1/5 (5 days) The task is only 15 hours.

Example of what they are hoping to see from a Capacity standpoint:
The manager is trying to see that 3 hours per day of the resources time is allocated to this task rather than the first 15 hrs of the week.

Release time frame 1 month
  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Mar 28, 2022

    You can now analyze the team's availability based on whether work is completed sequentially or in parallel on the capacity report in Aha! Roadmaps.

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  • Guest
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    Nov 11, 2021

    This is fantastic news! Thank you so much. Whenever you have a timeline for estimated delivery, please let me know. Thank you

    Bradley Jefferson

  • Ann L
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    Nov 11, 2021

    Capacity planning is useless without this feature - please implement

  • Guest
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    Sep 15, 2021

    Yes. This is essential and I need it as well. From a UI perspective it looks like Aha! would need to enhance for the capability to enter "planned" hours per day. This would be a big win for a lot of companies. See attachment. Please reach out if you want further feedback on this incredibly valuable enhancement.

  • Guest
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    Dec 11, 2020

    I was expecting to have this functionality out of the box from Aha! Actually, resource capacity was one of the main reasons why I am looking at this tool. Otherwise, it becomes very complicated

  • Chris Brooks
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    May 1, 2020

    The 'spreading' is also a requirement for us when planning at Initiative level. So the Team hours estimated should be spread over the initiative timeline so we can see the capacity for each Team over time.

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Advanced estimate across time for capacity for teams

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Should have the ability to allocate estimates across the timeline of the initiative, otherwise it gets "lumped" up front in the capacity report and misrepresents team capacity.
Dinesh Samtani about 4 years ago in Capacity planning / Strategy 1 Shipped