An Essential ingredient for Change Management Knowing the exact profile of staff that will be needed in the future is an essential ingredient for managing change. Human resource planning becomes really powerful within oCTAVe. Many processes can be linked together as a work-mix so that human resource plans are based on forecasts of volumes of each individual process.
Forecasts can be for individual time periods into the future.
For example, these may be monthly forecasts several years ahead to show the impact of a new product launch and phasing in new computer systems. At the other extreme workloads can be planned for hourly time 'buckets' throughout the day.