Description
Workshop Modules:
- Overview & Introductions – Overview of the workshop objectives and participant introductions.
- Overview of Facility Planning – Understand the different types/levels of facility planning and when to use each.
- Data for FM Planning – Identify data sources and assumptions needed for facility planning, with emphasis on space and budget forecasting.
- Developing Your Planning Model – How to design and build a facility planning model.
- Creating an Interactive Forecast with Power BI – Overview of the function of models (data relationships) and measures (data calculations) in Power BI. Review of some key functions of Power Query.
- Hands-on: Create a Facility Planning Template – Working session to use Power BI with some of your own data to create an initial facility planning template using the lessons from this workshop.
Workshop Organization and Requirements
These workshops are offered as two half-day virtual meetings in 2021. Each workshop has six modules that are about an hour each: 20-minute presentation 15-minute exercise, 20-minute discussion and 5- minute stretch break.
Group sizes are kept small to allow for sufficient interaction among workshop participants, and custom question/answer help discussions. We use Zoom (and/or MS Teams) for the session based upon participant needs.
Prerequisites:
Qualified Attendee:
- Staff member of an internal facilities group (prior permission required if FM consultant or contractor)
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
- Familiarity with Power Query / Attendance of Introduction to FM Metrics Workshop
- Commitment to attend and participate in the full session.
I work with Facility Data for my organization:
- Familiarity with your facility data to understand its sources and nature.
- Enough understanding of statistics for your work (statistic training is not needed or included).
- Copy of any current facility planning worksheets or templates you use (for your use).
- Copy of your facility source data files to use in the Hands-on session.
With suitable Computer and Software:
- Licensed Microsoft Excel (2016 or newer, preferably Office 365).
- 2 monitors suggested if possible.
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Registration
Register your interest in this workshop and we will contact you with upcoming dates.