Gain complete visibility into engineering teams’ work and how that work aligns with the organization’s key business initiatives across the engineering department.

The Resource Planning Report

The Resource Planning report has two tabs: Costs & Allocations and Unplanned & Unallocated Work.

Costs and Allocations

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To see data in the Resource Planning report, you need to set up allocation categories. Learn how to do that here.

It helps engineering executives understand how well resources are allocated and how to optimize team dynamics to improve software delivery velocity.

This can be visualized in the following ways: FTE; Cost and Percentage.

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FTE stands for full-time equivalent, which is the ratio of an engineer's scheduled hours to the employer's hours for a full-time workweek. If an employer has a 40-hour workweek, employees who work 40 hours per week are considered as 1.0 FTEs.

Here, you will see how much you allocated towards each allocation category.

By scrolling down, you will see the Allocations graph. Here, you'll see a graph of the allocated resources in the selected time frame.

Unplanned & Unallocated Work

The Unplanned and Unallocated work tab, in which you can see how much you allocated towards Unplanned work and Unallocated work.

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Unplanned Work includes any tasks that begin after the start of the sprint.

You can visualize this in FTEs, Cost, Percentage, and Count.

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FTE stands for full-time equivalent, which is the ratio of an engineer's scheduled hours to the employer's hours for a full-time workweek. If an employer has a 40-hour workweek, employees who work 40 hours per week are considered as 1.0 FTEs.

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Count refers to the total number of tickets identified as Unplanned work.

Setting up the Resource Planning

To visualize the Resource Planning report's data, please ensure you set it up correctly.

To do so, navigate to Settings in the Setup section.

In the Settings page, go to Costs and Allocations

Allocation Categories

Classify your work into categories relevant to your organization. Group your various work types into centralized categories. Please note that configuration changes on this page will affect allocations for all users in your organization.

To add new allocation categories, click "Add Allocation Category."

Here, you must select the work types for the category you want to create, the color to be represented, and give a name. When done, click Add Allocation Category.

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When you choose a specific work type (for example, “Bug”) under the Allocation Category Bug, the displayed number represents the total count of that work type across all the projects within your account. This means if “Bug” is chosen, and you see "10 work types," it indicates that the “Bug” work type is present 10 times in total, across various projects in your account.

Now, this will be represented in your Resource Planning report.

Setting up salaries/working hours for team members

Remember that in Waydev, the default salary for engineers is $150.000. You can change this from the Teams Management page in the setup section.

Change salary and working hours individually

In the Teams Management page, on the contributors view, click the settings button of the contributor you want to modify the salary/working hours for.

In the Edit modal, modify the salary (per year) and working hours (per day) and click "Update"

Import Salaries

In the Teams management page, click the $ Import Salaries button.

Make sure you respect all requirements to make sure we provide accurate data:

1. This will search for the Contributors that have the same email address / full name as in the CSV file, and it will save their salaries.
2. The CSV file must have the columns named "email" (the email of the Contributor must be assigned to a Contributor in Waydev, not required if name is used, but recommended), "salary" (the salary of the Contributor, as a number without any special characters) and "name" (the full name of the Contributor, must be an exact match of that available in Waydev, not required if email is used, but not recommended) to make sure it detects everything properly.
3. Before starting this, please make sure you've done all the merges .
4. This has no effect on the structure of teams or other details of the Contributors other than Salaries. Please use the specific Import Structure from the same menu for that functionality.