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Workforce and capability

IT Future: Workforce & Capability

  • Built · Power BI
  • 6-quarter forecast
  • Hire · Upskill · Blend
  • 5 pages shown
“Will we have the people and skills the roadmap needs?”
Capacity vs Demand page of the IT Future: Workforce & Capability dashboard dashboard
Page 01 · Capacity vs Demand Illustrative sample data
5 report pages · hover to hold, select a frame to view it

What it shows

  • Where the roadmap needs more people than you have, and when.
  • Which systems depend on one person, and what debt sits on them.
  • Whether skills supply meets roadmap demand over 6 quarters, as P10 / P50 / P90 ranges.
  • Hire, upskill or blend: cost and share of the gap closed.

Outcomes

  • Capacity shortfalls named by team and quarter before they delay delivery.
  • Single points of failure linked to the systems and debt they carry.
  • A workforce plan priced per full-time equivalent of gap closed.

Built for: CIOs, heads of engineering and HR partners planning technology capability.

Product specification

Four report pages plus a methodology appendix: Capacity vs Demand, Key-Person & Skills Risk, Capability Forecast, and Workforce Investment Plan.

Capacity is compared with roadmap demand by team and quarter. Key-person risk links each single-expert system to its technical debt, so it pairs with IT Future: Tech Debt. The skills gap is forecast over 6 quarters with a Monte Carlo simulation, and each option is costed per full-time equivalent of gap closed.

Pages
4 + appendix
Forecast
6 quarters, P10 / P50 / P90
Options
Hire · Upskill · Blend
Format
Power BI (PBIP), CSV inputs

How it's delivered: days, not months

  1. ScopeA short call to agree the decision it needs to support and which data you already have.
  2. LoadYour exports go into the model's CSV templates. No live connection to your systems is needed to start.
  3. RunThe model runs on your data, and every number traces back to its inputs and the documented method.
  4. Hand overYou keep the Power BI file, its design walkthrough and engineering companion, or our practitioners run it with you each month.

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