Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Introduction to Project Management — Lesson 2: Planning Lines, Budgets and Capacity

Learning Objectives

• Build planning lines for budgets, schedules, items, resources, expenses, milestones, and billing methods
• Compare budget, usage, capacity, dates, scope, availability, and corrective planning options
• Validate planning lines, budgets and capacity decisions with documented requirements, evidence, risk controls, and measurable acceptance criteria

Detailed Topics

• Build planning lines for budgets: Build planning lines for budgets, schedules, items, resources, expenses, milestones, and billing methods
• Compare budget: Compare budget, usage, capacity, dates, scope, availability, and corrective planning options
• Validate planning lines: Validate planning lines, budgets and capacity decisions with documented requirements, evidence, risk controls, and measurable acceptance criteria

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, users, data, dependencies, permissions, risks, and expected result.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, creation, administration, analysis, or development workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, test results, and other useful evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with acceptance criteria and explain any corrective action.

Hands-On Activity

Complete a guided implementation scenario and preserve evidence of settings, outputs, and exceptions.

• Document assumptions, prerequisites, and the planned sequence before starting.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal, boundary, and failure behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, reusable notes, and the next improvement priority.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify the business or technical decision that must be made.
• Compare valid implementation approaches and their trade-offs.
• Consider security, privacy, accessibility, performance, support, and operational impact.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, data, permissions, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, ownership, user impact, and business continuity.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement, scope, inputs, and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected design or configuration is documented and follows approved standards.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, accessibility, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply Planning Lines, Budgets and Capacity in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.