Workforce Planning
Pre-requisites: At a minimum, Team Directory is live and includes:
People Supply: the line management hierarchy of people in Demand teams, and their
Principal Role or Capability
Hatted Roles (if used)
Skills (if used)
Managers or the people with decision rights for who gets allocated to which team (aka Chapter 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
Value Stream → Agile Release Train → Team
These are the building blocks of the organisational taxonomy that create the foundation for workforce planning.
Ideally, there should be a clear separation between supply and demand structures
Additionally, the organization has
an annual planning methodology (eg Quarterly Business Review)
the desire to add the lens of workforce to planning
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 Outcome → Epic
Objectives and Key Results
A model for successful team composition that can be used to identify workforce requirement gaps
Blended rates for the people supply groupings; provides budgetary estimates
An understanding of funding sources and how that contributes to workforce planning