Build a project plan that balances multiple objectives
In the previous section, we explored how partners can emphasize objectives, and then use the platform to build a prioritized project plan. This series of projects is known as a scenario. Vibrant Planet provides a common operating picture for you and your partners. There are many points in the process of using the platform that lend themselves to collaboration. Here we will consider a primary tool for collaboration with partners, consensus building.
Vibrant Planet allows each individual partner to log into the platform, view the same planning area, and create a scenario with different weighted objectives and constraints. After all partners have completed this process, each scenario can then be compared to one another, including the identification of overlapping areas known as complete consensus.
In this example, we’ll find a consensus area across two different scenarios:
- Scenario 1 emphasizes assets and safety at a 4 across 3 projects totaling 10,000 acre per project
- Scenario 2 prioritizes all objectives equally across 3 projects totaling 10,000 acre per project
The platform indicates that a 112,232 acre project costing $28 million would prioritize all partners’ objectives. This is known as a complete consensus scenario.
This is also visually mapped on the platform scenario planning screen.
You have the option to save this as a new scenario. In the next section, explore how you can examine the detailed financial and management statistics of individual and consensus scenarios.
Science Corner: Weighing objectives across scenarios
The platform calculates the percent of maximal impact that could be achieved within the planning area, per objective, by treatment scenario. Some treatments may have negative impact, such as those that have not been prioritized for the scenario like carbon in this example, which is why the bars show a negative percentage.