Workforce planning has Prerequisites that need to be in place |
Our experience with multiple customers has indicated that a phased approach is the most successful for embedding workforce planning as a practice within an organisation.
This is true regardless of what technology is used to analyse, mediate, and record decisions on which work gets done, by who, for how much.
These phases allow for regular reflection on the approach - particularly to examine the possibility that workforce planning is no longer identified as one of the highest priority challenges to solve, and therefore it’s time to hit the pause or stop button.
The phases are as follows:
Problem Statement agreed that stakeholders can rally to.
Kick-Off to start the work of addressing the problem statement.
Discovery to refine the problem statement, uncover any existing process, and propose an improved process supported by TeamForm tooling that would address the problem statement. A high-level plan for how we would proceed with workforce planning is worked out.
Pilot with friendly and right-sized demand and supply areas.
Rollout which could be scoped to one/some/all the ToToT structures.
Embedding a Team-Centric Workforce Planning Cadence providing continuous improvement of the embedded process after roll-out complete.