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The holistic view of data that you get for past sprints using capacity planning does help in taking decisions and continuous improvement.

Improves focus and commitment which in turn increases chances of sprint success.

The better way is to multiply your capacity of a team with focus factor.įocus Factor = (Average Velocity of previous sprints)/(Average Capacity of previous sprints)

The velocity is either considered by averaging past few sprints or simply picking velocity of the previous sprint.

The chances of making mistake are high.

Many sprint team does this manually which has two disadvantages.

The availability percentage help us to identify available hours which eventually help us to pick the right amount of work for a given sprint.

My goal is just to make the process easy and make you understand the benefit. Please note you can use the template I provided or any other template you or your company already have.

Based on past sprint data you get hours per story points in the Capacity sheet that would help us to derive how many story points we can really commit for upcoming sprint for which we are doing capacity planning.

If not, you would start having that from next sprint onwards once you start using this planner.

Fill in details of past sprints if you have data.

Consider holidays, time off and other factors which affect hours for given days.

You can make changes to individuals availability on specific days.

This would open capacity sheet with available hours for each individual for all days (Start to end of the sprint).

These can be updated for individuals as per your team allocation.

Set high-level default percentages and click “Set Default Allocation” Button.

Mention all the team member names (Column B11 onwards).

State daily total hours available each day for one person.

Sprint layout online download#

You can download the template for capacity planning available at This helps the team to make a commitment (How many story-points team would complete). This process is called capacity planning. The capacity is calculated before starting a sprint to identify how many stories team can accomplish for the upcoming sprint. The number of productive hours available for a sprint is called sprint capacity.