# Departments

A department is used to categorize and group roles within the organization based on functional teams or disciplines. Departments help segment resource capacity, manage utilization targets, and support filtering within reporting and planning workflows. Each role in Parallax belongs to a department for organizational clarity and capacity planning.

## List Departments

 - [GET /v1/departments](https://developer.getparallax.com/api-documentation/swagger/departments/listdepartments.md): Returns a paginated list of departments configured in the system, used to categorize people and roles for filtering and resourcing.

## Create Department

 - [POST /v1/departments](https://developer.getparallax.com/api-documentation/swagger/departments/createdepartment.md): Creates a new Department to categorize roles within the organization.

## Update Department

 - [PATCH /v1/departments/{id}](https://developer.getparallax.com/api-documentation/swagger/departments/updatedepartment.md): Updates an existing department's name or archived status.