Budget resources in the Business Case using the Scenario Planner
As part of resource planning, you can use the Adobe Workfront Scenario Planner to budget the job roles necessary for completing the work in a project when you build the business case.
For more information about creating a business case, see Create a Business Case for a project.
You can also budget resources in the business case using the Resource Planner. For more information, see the following:
Access requirements
You must have the following:
*To find out what plan, license type, or access you have, contact your Workfront administrator.
Prerequisites
Before you begin, you must do the following:
-
Create a plan using the Scenario Planner.
For information, see Create and edit plans in the Scenario Planner.
-
Create an initiative on the plan and link it to a project.
Ensure that you indicate the required job roles information for the initiative and update the linked project with this information.
For more information, see the following articles:
-
Although these are not prerequisites, we also recommend the following:
-
Assign tasks on the project to the job roles budgeted in the Scenario Planner.
-
Indicate the number of Planned Hours for the tasks on the project.
This helps you understand the amount of work a task might need to complete, which helps with the decision of how much time the resources should be budgeted for to complete the task.
For information about associating tasks with Planned Hours, see Edit tasks.
-
Budget resources in the Business Case using the Scenario Planner for projects linked to initiatives
-
Go to the project for which you want to budget resources.
note tip TIP This is a project linked to an initiative in the Scenario Planner whose linked initiative has been published at least once. -
Click Business Case in the left panel.
-
(Conditional) In the Resource Budgeting section, do one of the following:
-
If you just published information from the Scenario Planner, select Scenario Planner in the Choose which hours to use to calculate the Budgeted Labor Cost of the project field in the Resource Budgeting area, then click Choose.
-
If the Resource Planner was previously selected for budgeting resources for the project, click Change > Scenario Planner > Choose.
Workfront uses the required job role hours from the linked initiative to calculate the project’s Budgeted Labor Cost and Budgeted Hours. This is the recommended option. Cost displays in the Business Case in the currency of the project.
When you copy a project, and you select to copy the Budgeted Hours to the new project, the hours budgeted using the Scenario Planner are not copied to the new project. Only hours budgeted in the Resource Planner are copied. For more information, see Copy a project.
note important IMPORTANT When you use the Scenario Planner to budget resources for the project, the Budgeted Labor Cost displays in the following areas of Workfront: - Resource Budgeting area of the Business Case
- The system-level Scenario Planner as the People Cost of the initiative linked to the project. For more information, see Create and edit initiatives in the Scenario Planner.
-
-
(Optional) Click View in Scenario Planner to open the plan that contains the initiative linked to the project. This opens the Scenario Planner in a new browser tab.
-
(Optional) Update information on the initiative. For more information, see Create and edit initiatives in the Scenario Planner.
note note NOTE You must publish the initiative after every change for the Resource Budgeting area on the project to update.