Add and name people who aren't users for planning or scenario development

[georgiamoon]

It'd be really helpful to be able to add and enter data for our team, so that they can review it and/or so we can maintain it as a planning tool, and consider scenarios/options.

Example user story:
A new project opportunity means that we could shift around team allocations and bring on a collaborator, but we want to game it out before engaging the whole team to think about it

[jsonin]

Agree.

We had a "TBD" in the pull-down for scenario planning... and stubbing out possible people.
I lost that somewhere in the shuffle. Will add it in pronto.

[georgiamoon]

@jsonin it's still in one of the modal views, I saw that. I guess I was thinking more like — I'll add my full team, but they don't have to be users and I can model out some options for team/project distribution. So one TBD is good, but I'm thinking, like 2 people are users and we can provisionally add our whole team to make a plan / explore some options. So I think it'd be a few features:

• Add people without needing to add them as users
• Put labels/names on placeholder people
• Have scenarios, e.g. Options of "Staffing Plans"

Another option, if you can add arbitrary people who aren't users is that you could have "Georgia-Option1" and "Georgia-Option2", etc and that'd allow you to develop scenarios to compare.

[jsonin]

That's an understandable and needed scenario.
A looks-like model for a Georgia or Juhan or whoever... that can be planned against, and then turned "real" with an invite, that's then attached to that synthetic instance.

I get it. And dig it.
We'll work it.

Maybe a stop-gap is

1. naming the TBD person
2. adding a bunch of named TBD people to projects (that aren't full accounts/real people yet)
3. when you're ready to add the team, add real people... and then assign that Georgia-Option1 to the real Georgia via the pull down.

We have 2+3. We can add 1.

[georgiamoon]

Cool, yeah it seems like a more advanced feature, but also very doable with the current experience and features.

Cool 👍🏼👍🏼