Capacity in Strategic Planning

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title: Capacity in Strategic Planning
description: The Capacity tab provides portfolio managers a comprehensive view of capacity, allocations, and utilization of resources.
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# Capacity in Strategic Planning

The Capacity tab provides portfolio managers a comprehensive view of capacity, allocations, and utilization of resources.

Analyzing the Capacity screen, you can:

-   View resource capacity for prioritized items in your portfolio.

    **Note:** The Capacity screen displays effort only from prioritized planning items for the **Filtered Out Items** and **Estimate outside portfolio** rows. This may result in different utilization values compared to Resource Management Workspace, which includes all planning items regardless of state.

-   Understand the resource capacity needs and estimates across your organization by using key attributes such as group, role, and skill.
-   Effectively forecast the supply of resources and the demand of work in your portfolio.
-   Understand and get an overview of the resource capacity allocations by using the color indicators.
-   Plan for resources with specific skills or roles for future assignments.
-   View the resource allocation health instantly with the new intuitive user interface that gives you a detailed breakdown of portfolio duration by month having over allocations.
-   Identify the risks in resource capacity for the prioritized planning items using the Rank field.
-   Use the warning icons to easily identify the over utilized resources \(\[Omitted image "cp-over-utilized-icon.png"\] Alt text: Over utilized resource icon.\), planning items with actual dates \(\[Omitted image "cp-wip-gantt-bar-icon.png"\] Alt text: In-progress icon for planning items with actual dates.\), and the planning items or resource groups with no resource assignments \(\[Omitted image "cp-no-rsrc-asgnmnts-icon.png"\] Alt text: No resource assignments icon.\).

\[Omitted image "cp-capacity-planning-screen.png"\] Alt text: Capacity screen.

The top screen area displays:

-   Resource capacity details depending on the defined resource criteria.
-   Allocation details for the time period.
-   Resources grouped by primary attributes.

The bottom screen area displays:

-   Prioritized planning items.
-   Interactive Gantt chart for the duration of planning items. Select a Gantt bar to see the capacity for that specific planning item only.

    **Note:** Move the Gantt bar of a planning item to adjust the planned dates depending on the available resource capacity. Planning items with actual dates, indicated with in-progress icon \(\[Omitted image "cp-wip-gantt-bar-icon.png"\] Alt text: In-progress icon for planning items with actual dates.\), cannot be adjusted for resource availability.

-   Toggle option \(\[Omitted image "cp-toggle-buttons.png"\] Alt text: Toggle options to view capacity.\) to adjust the resource capacity view.
-   Legend explaining the visual representation of the resource capacity and Gantt bar of planning items.

    \[Omitted image "cp-legend.png"\] Alt text: Legend chart for Capacity screen.


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