Buoyancy

A planning tool for multi-disciplinary teams.

People

Projects

Roles

Glossary

Role

Either:

• Designer
• Tester
• Tech lead
• Full stack developer
• Front end developer
• Back end developer

We can report on:

• Total required days per role per week.
• Total planned days per role per week.
• Required vs planned days per role per week.

Skill

A skill is a specific technology or tool that a team member has experience with e.g.:

• React
• .Net
• Angular

We can report on:

• Total required days per skill per week.
• Total planned days per skill per week.
• Required vs planned days per skill per week.

Team member

A person with:

• a single role
• 0 or more skills
• availability

We can report on:

• Total available days per team member per week.
• Total planned days per team member per week.
• Available vs planned days per team member per week.

Project

A project defines:

• Required roles and skills per week.
• Planned roles and quantities per week.

Scenario plan

The addition and/or removal of projects on given weeks.

So that we can select a scenario plan and report on:

• Impact on required roles and skills per week.
• Impact on planned roles and skills per week.
• Impact on required vs planned roles and skills per week.

Features

Authentication

• Log in with AD account.

Person

• View all people.
• Add a new person.
• View capacity vs planned per person per week.
• View schedule for a person.

Roles

• Add a new role.
• View capacity vs planned per role per week.

Skills

• Add a new skill.
• View capacity vs planned per skill per week.

Projects

• View all projects.
• Add a new project.
• Manage required roles for a project.
• Manage required skills for a project.
• View planned vs required roles for a project.
• View planned vs required skills for a project.

Scenario plans

• View all scenario plans.
• Create a new scenario plan.
• Add new project to a scenario plan.
• Amend an existing project in a scenario plan.
• View the impact of a scenario plan on required vs planned roles and skills per week.

Architecture

erDiagram

project {
    id int PK
    name string
}

squad {
    id int PK
    name string
}

role {
    id int PK
    name string
}

skill {
    id int PK
    name string
}

person {
    id int PK
    squadId int
    roleId int
    name string
}

personSkill {
    personId int PK
    skillId int PK
}

projectRoleRequirement {
    projectId int PK
    roleId int PK
    weekStarting dateOnly PK
    daysRequired int
}

projectSkillRequirement {
    projectId int PK
    skillId int PK
    weekStarting dateOnly PK
    daysRequired int
}

projectPlannedPerson {
    projectId int PK
    personId int PK
    weekStarting dateOnly PK
    daysPlanned int
}

skill ||--o{ personSkill: ""
project ||--o{ projectSkillRequirement: ""
projectSkillRequirement ||--o{ skill: ""
project ||--o{ projectRoleRequirement: ""
role ||--o{ projectRoleRequirement: ""
person ||--o{ projectPlannedPerson: ""
person ||--o{ personSkill: ""
project ||--o{ projectPlannedPerson: ""
role ||--o{ person: ""
person ||--o{ squad: ""

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