![]() Team velocity is based on actual story points completed in a closed sprint while team’s capacity is based on team’s estimated or projected future availability for the next sprint. How is Team Capacity different from Team Velocity? It further helps optimize resource’ bandwidth, thereby improving commitment and reliability. Better planning leads to better anticipation of challenges with regards to resource availability and time constraints. This planning considers the company’s time off, team members’ personal time off and commitments that could impact the time available for productive project work. Figure 1: Various aspects of capacity planning Know the facts of Capacity PlanningĬapacity Planning helps teams understand how many story points they are likely to accomplish within a sprint. The diagrammatic representation, Figure 1 shown below depicts different aspects of capacity planning. ![]() Teams tend to overlook this critical aspect, which further derails the entire model of all agile frameworks. The key to avoid such pitfalls and plan better is capacity planning. This leads to scope variance and takes up a good chunk of time in retrospectives of understanding the causes leading to such situations. Our decades of agile practice experience have shown us that most of the agile projects lose out on their committed goals as they are under-committing or over-committing to work in sprints. In this fourth blog of the series, we will have an informative discussion on how we can achieve capacity planning for sprints.
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