Which methods should you use to plan IT capacity?
No single method is enough: SAFe and PI Planning frame the capacity of an agile release train, Scrum and Kanban cap workload per iteration or through work-in-progress limits, Little's law explains the effect of parallel work on lead times, the theory of constraints points to the bottleneck, and the focus factor brings gross capacity down to real capacity.
Capacity planning methods and frameworks
The ways of thinking that help size and protect capacity.
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SAFe and capacity
Sustainable PI commitments come from computed capacity, not assumed capacity.
View methodPI Planning
A successful PI Planning is prepared with capacity figures that are already consolidated.
View methodKanban, Scrum, and capacity
Scrum caps workload per iteration, Kanban through work-in-progress limits.
View methodLittle's law
The more projects you open at once, the longer each one takes.
View methodTheory of constraints
Overall throughput is set by the most constrained resource.
View methodFocus factor
No team produces 100% of its available time.
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