Skills Analysis

This article describes the Skills Analysis page.

Overview

The Skills Analysis page provides display options for utilization, demand, capacity, and variance by skill.

A few things to understand about what you see:

• The data set analyzed is limited to the data load settings specified in your main Global Filter. What this mean is that if you are filtering for your organization’s projects and resources for this calendar year, you see the capacity and demand within your organization across the primary skills possessed by the resources you have filtered for in this calendar year. If you have a new skill starting at the beginning of the following year, that information will not show because your Get Data Filter is set to only present this year’s data.
• Utilization is expressed as the percentage of the demand for the skill, compared to the capacity of all resources having that skill. [100 * (Demand / Capacity)]
• Only primary skills are used in the calculations. Should a resource also be associated with secondary skills, those are not considered as part of the capacity value.

Note: This option shows how you are leveraging your primary skills. For a full analysis of assignments by skill, including secondary skill assignments, if any, go to the Assignment Roll-up page in the PMO area and define Required Skill as your roll-up hierarchy field. See Roll-Up Reports.

How To

Selecting Data Type

In the upper left dropdown, you can select data types for display.

% Utilization is the default when the page is activated.

Key to Highlights

The color thresholds are set by the administrator for all users.

Red indicates over-utilized. Said differently: There is more demand for the skill than what you have in capacity for the skill in the period filtered for in the Global Funnel Filter.

 Dark blue indicates under-utilized. Said differently: There is less demand for the skill than what you have in capacity for the skill in the period filtered for in the Global Funnel Filter.

 No color for an interval indicates utilization is within adequate threshold.

&   A white ampersand Indicates no demand nor capacity for that skill in the period filtered for in the Global Funnel Filter.

Orange fill with a number sign (#) indicates demand is greater than zero but capacity is zero. Said differently: There is demand for the skill however no one has that skill (capacity) in the period filtered for in the Global Funnel Filter.