Capacity Planning- draft simple template

[Rashmi]

Nice to have the Forum back again after the spammer hijacking - though quite amusing!
Anyway, many thanks to all for promoting the simple capacity plan, I hope it helps and we can share some feedback on how to develop it further. When I update my current plan I will post a revised version- perhaps others could also share ? (please remove any identifiers). I now review my staff status monthly rather than quarterly as it is easier to do and more timely intervention can be taken.

Mike Dawe visited my lab last week and we had a good chat about how the plan needs to show the impact on team members. For example, if the BBM and 2 of 3 seniors are off-then there will be increased pressure on the remaining senior and staff. If anyone has ideas on how to visualise this please let me know ( no emojis allowed , though James Reason's Three Brown Bucket model might work ).
Mike also mentioned that we should indicate the number of extra hours worked ( paid and unpaid) by individuals- so separate lines added to show this info.

Finally, I believe Mike mentioned something about running workshops around this topic- so something to think about with your TADG / RTC groups?

bw