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Pre-requisites: At a minimum, Team Directory is live and includes:

• People structure (e.g. from your HRIS / HCM system): the line management hierarchy of people participating in cross-functional teams

  • Principal Role or Capability

  • Hatted Roles (if used)

  • Skills (if used)

  • Managers of people who can support participation in a cross-functional team (aka Chapter lead / Capability lead)

• Demand Teaming Structure

  • Delivery teams, organised in a way that makes “sense” to people in the org

    • Tribe → Squad

    • Business Unit → Domain → Subdomain → Squad

    • Portfolio → System Release Train → Agile Release Train → Agile Team

These are the building blocks that create a foundation for workforce planning.

• Ideally, there should be a clear separation between supply and demand structures

• Additionally:

  • an existing cadenced planning approach (eg Quarterly Business Review)

  • the appetite to enrich planning with a workforce lens