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title: Capacity planning in Portfolio Planning
description: The Capacity Planning screen provides portfolio managers a comprehensive view of capacity, allocations, and utilization of resources.
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# Capacity planning in Portfolio Planning

The Capacity Planning screen provides portfolio managers a comprehensive view of capacity, allocations, and utilization of resources.

Analyzing the Capacity Planning screen, you can easily:

-   View resource capacity for prioritized items in your portfolio.
-   Understand the resource capacity needs and estimates across your organization by using key attributes such as group, role, and skill.
-   Effectively forecast the supply of resources and the demand of work in your portfolio.
-   Understand and get an overview of the resource capacity allocations by using the color indicators.
-   Plan for resources with specific skills or roles for future assignments.
-   View the resource allocation health instantly with the new intuitive user interface that gives you a detailed breakdown of portfolio duration by month having over allocations.

    \[Omitted image "cp-capacity-planning-screen.png"\] Alt text: Capacity Planning screen.

-   The top tray of the screen displays:
    -   Resource capacity details depending on the defined resource criteria.
    -   Allocation details for the time period.
    -   Resources grouped by primary attributes.
-   The bottom tray of the screen displays:
    -   Prioritized planning items.
    -   Interactive Gantt chart for the duration of planning items.

        You can click a Gantt chart bar to see the capacity for that specific planning item only.

        You can move the Gantt chart to adjust your resource capacity details accordingly.

    -   Toggle option \(\[Omitted image "cp-toggle-buttons.png"\] Alt text: Toggle options to view capacity.\) to adjust your view of the Capacity Planning screen.

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