Is there anyone using cost transparency to enable a resource capacity management function? I would like to have a quick discussion about lessons learned.

I see resource capacity needs as being very similar to those of financial management replacing $ for FTEs. We have a project portfolio management tool that captures resource assignments and hours, and Cost Transparency is already consuming files originating from that tool.

Thanks

I know i've seen this done before but i can't recall where exactly. @Matt Temple (Matt) have you guys ever explored this approach? robert daughetee might have some insight as well.

We use hours to determine capacity used for a given area/topic of interest, percent labor capitalized (by way of hours reported on capital classified projects), allocation costs per ratio of hours, etc.

We also analyze the aggregate of the hours reported per resource and compare to the expected hours available for a given month. In cases where hours are not equal to or more than the available hours, we enter a record (in Apptio) on behalf of the labor resource which is defaulted to "general/unknown" OpEx funded efforts or, in some cases, follow some hard-set rules into specific allocation stategies.

The employee hours' data is flagged to accommodate for the delay in timing for the financial impact. In this way, we're empowered to spin up reports/models which can tackle use by calendar and fiscal period.

We're also working towards inclusion of employee time card edit data and then creating reports which show the "revised" labor utilization...mitigating the large hills and valleys created in fiscal months full of timecard edits. ;-)

Thanks for the call our Joe Mitchell! hi5

So you're focused on managing timesheet data and how it relates to financials.

We're looking at a wider scope for a demand capacity model. I’m hoping to get insights to a model that looks at planned work vs capacity.

Thank You

Not quite.

We also compare the data (inclusive of rate X hours) to what was planned, forecasted, and budgeted. We break it down to labor service areas, cost pools, resource roles, application alignment, etc.