Workforce Planning
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
Nice to haves, that can be added later. TeamForm encourages progress over perfection.
View of the high level work that demand teaming structures are doing, eg:
Strategic Outcomes / OKRs / Initiatives / Epics (for example)
Some simple rules / guides for team composition e.g. min / max size, role composition etc.)
Blended rates for the people supply groupings
An understanding of funding approach, funding sources and how it links to teams
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