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Because assignment has no ceiling. Work is given to whoever is competent, one task at a time, and no single decision looks unreasonable. The total does.
Workload shows what each person is committed to in a period, as hours, against the hours they actually have.
It sums estimates on assigned tasks per person per period, against their working pattern and approved leave in Nest. Over-capacity is a number with the specific commitments behind it.
One developer is at a hundred and forty per cent next week while another is at sixty. The view shows which tasks could move and what each move costs in dependency terms.
It will not reassign anything. Moving work between people has skill and relationship consequences a number cannot see.
Tasks and estimates from the plan, working patterns and leave from Nest, and the effect of any change lands in the roadmap and project dates.
Yes, from the working pattern held in Nest.
They show as assigned but unquantified, so the total is honest about what it cannot count.
Yes, for work that is not yet assigned.
Fourteen days, every module, no card. Or half an hour with someone who will run it on your own records and tell you where it does not help.