Customers across manufacturing, R&D, and IT project environments are requesting deeper skill-based resource management capabilities within AdaptiveWork. While the product provides strong role-, job-title-, and user-based planning, customers need skills and competencies to become first-class planning dimensions.
The proposed enhancement includes the following capabilities:
1. Skill Proficiency Levels
• Support proficiency attributes for skills (e.g., Beginner/Intermediate/Expert, Level 1–5, or custom frameworks).
• Enable proficiency-based matching and capacity analysis.
2. Skill Requirements on Projects, Tasks, and Staffing Requests
• Allow projects, tasks, and staffing requests to define required skills and proficiency levels.
• Automatically match available resources based on skill fit.
• Highlight skill gaps or insufficient capacity.
3. Skill-Level Capacity, Utilization, and Workload Visibility
• View workload, utilization, and availability by skill.
• Analyze total organizational capacity for specific skills.
• Identify skill shortages across portfolios and departments.
4. Skill-Based Staffing Requests and Review & Assign
• Enable staffing requests to specify required skills and proficiency levels.
• Improve accuracy and efficiency during Review & Assign.
5. Skill-Based Capacity Heatmap
• Extend the Resource Heatmap to support skill-based views.
• Display supply, demand, and staffing requests by skill.
• Allow assignment actions directly from skill-based capacity views.
Business Value
Skill-based planning reflects how capacity is managed in manufacturing, R&D, and IT environments. This enhancement would significantly improve staffing accuracy, workforce planning, and AdaptiveWork’s competitiveness in skill-driven organizations.
