The shape of the product
Resource Planner is a SharePoint Framework web part for forward demand and capacity planning. It reads two SharePoint lists inside the host site (DemandItems and CapacitySlots) and presents the comparison between them as a quarterly board with traffic-light cells. Demand items carry a status lifecycle and a change-reason field; capacity entries carry an availability number and an optional notes field. The board surfaces the squeeze; the drill-down shows what to do about it.
The product sits inside the JFDI Planner Suite as the operational pair to Decision Planner. Where Decision Planner records why an organisation committed to a course of action, Resource Planner records what that commitment means in capacity terms. The two read each other’s lists so the audit trail joins up.
Built by JFDI Consulting
Resource Planner is built and supported by JFDI Consulting Ltd, a Microsoft 365 software and consultancy house operating since 2001. JFDI is a Microsoft Certified Partner and Applications Chartered Member, with two decades of platform expertise across SharePoint Server, SharePoint Online, the SharePoint Framework, Microsoft 365, Azure, and adjacent ecosystems.
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Where the product comes from
Resource Planner exists because most of the JFDI consulting team have, at some point, helped a client move forward demand planning out of a workbook and into something that everyone can read. The patterns we kept seeing (team-by-quarter capacity sheets, demand registers in shared drives, version-confusion at the worst possible time) made it clear there was a product worth productising. The MVP is being built against the same patterns; the design is shaped by what those engagements told us.
Where we are
Resource Planner is in MVP build today, ahead of the Microsoft Marketplace listing. The product is being built in six phases against the data model and feature set described on this site. Pilot tenancies will come online progressively as each phase lands; the Marketplace listing is the final commercial step before paid tiers activate. See the Updates page for the running record of build progress.
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Under the hood
Want to see where the squeeze is, before slip dates do?
Resource Planner is coming to the Microsoft commercial marketplace once the MVP build is complete. Pilot tenancies are coming online today; the full Enterprise surface ships with every install.