“Do we have the people for what we just funded?”
Workforce & Labor treats people costs as part of the same numbers, not a separate headcount model. The headcount plan, the hours people actually worked and the payroll figure finance booked sit side by side — compared, never added together. Teams are linked to the capabilities and projects they staff, with skills alongside, and funded open roles are kept separate from unfunded demand, so a gap is priced before the next commitment.
Rooms you open
Methods supported
Part of Fund & Optimize · How do we plan, allocate and optimize resources?
The pressure
The headcount plan, the hours worked and finance’s payroll number are three different figures owned by three different teams. Overcommitment is discovered when the work starts. Contractors get counted as staff, outside services get counted twice, and the skills that matter are invisible to the people assigning the work.
What it looks like today
What changes
A separate headcount model
People costs as part of the same numbers as technology spend
Plan versus actual, argued over
Plan, hours worked and payroll side by side, and reconciled
Staffing gaps discovered during delivery
Funded open roles and unfunded demand priced before you commit
Compared, not combined
The plan, the hours people actually worked and the payroll figure finance booked — side by side on one total, with each team labeled by how its cost is calculated. A gap reads as a real performance difference, not an accounting quirk, and outside services stay out of staff costs.
Where other tools stop
HR systems know headcount. Delivery tools know hours. Finance knows payroll. Only a shared model can show all three and how they match up.
The rooms
Each room answers one question a leader actually asks, with the view that answers it and the measures that say whether it is working.
A room is a ready-made view that answers one leadership question, built on the same shared data as every other room.
Room 01
“What do our people cost by team, how does plan compare to actual, and where does each number come from?”
Three people-cost measures side by side — plan, hours worked and finance’s payroll figure — on one total, with each team’s cost basis labeled.
How you know it is working
Room 02
“Who staffs which capability, and are people working where the priorities are?”
People, teams and worker types against the capabilities and projects they staff, with skills alongside.
How you know it is working
Room 03
“Where are the funded open roles, which hiring requests can go ahead, and what is still unknown?”
Planned demand, funded and unfunded roles, and open job requisitions for funded roles only — with unconfirmed funding kept separate.
How you know it is working
Who it is for
“Which funded projects lack people, and where can we move them from?
“Which people-cost number is right — and why do they differ?
“Which roles can we not fill, and what are the options?
“Is my next phase staffed before it starts?
What it replaces
How it is licensed
Workforce & Labor is licensed within Fund & Optimize, with Cost Allocation included underneath.
Start in IT, one function or a division. Cost Allocation is included automatically with every module.
See pricingMethods and frameworks
Dotwork does not ask you to adopt a new method. The frameworks your teams run become views over the same model.
TBM
Technology Business Management: a standard way to categorize IT spend and who uses it.
SAFe
Scaled Agile Framework: a widely used way to run agile delivery across many teams.
BIZBOK
The business architecture standard for mapping what a business does and how value flows.
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Steer, Fund & Optimize and Govern & Deliver all read and write the same Enterprise Operating Model. The first module you license builds the model. Every module after it adds context instead of another silo — and Dotwork AI reads all of it, stopping where the decision is yours.
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