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?
The number of hours
Ask each team member if they in a day that a team
Are going to miss any time during member has available
the sprint. to work on a sprint-
related task.
I’m out I’m out
all week
?
2 days
baby!

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Step #2
How many are on the team?
Queener
Determine the total
Thomason number of
Yang People you will have
available
Ince To work on sprint-
Stetzel related 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 #3
Step #4
So, what’s our capacity?
How many days in the sprint?
Define the total number
Of working days in the sprint.
Calculate the total number
of productive hours
# team members x #
productive hours x # days
in the sprint If you have “shared” team mates
remember to account for their
time as needed

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