Capacity Planning Training Document

Capacity Planning purpose Critical to the success of a Sprint planning session, a team estimates the total number of “ideal hours” it has available to work on sprint-related tasks.

Step #1

What are ideal hours?

Whose on vacation? Ask each team member if they Are going to miss any time during the sprint. I’m out all week baby!

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The number of hours in a day that a team member has available to work on a sprintrelated task.

I’m out 2 days

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Step #2

How many are on the team? Determine the total number of People you will have available To work on sprintrelated tasks

Let’s see…… 5 people, times 4 ideal hours, times 10 days in a sprint, minus 25 hours for vacation equals 175 hours capacity!!!!

Step #4 So, what’s our capacity? Calculate the total number of productive hours # team members x # productive hours x # days in the sprint

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Step #3

How many days in the sprint? Define the total number Of working days in the sprint.

If you have “shared” team mates remember to account for their time as needed