# Capacity planning methods and frameworks

> Methods that inform IT capacity: SAFe, PI Planning, Kanban and Scrum, Little's law, theory of constraints, and focus factor. Formulas and examples.

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## 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.

## Methods

- [SAFe and capacity](https://www.simpleworkload.com/en/methods/safe-capacity.md): How do you calculate team capacity in SAFe?
- [PI Planning](https://www.simpleworkload.com/en/methods/pi-planning.md): How do you prepare capacity before a PI Planning?
- [Kanban, Scrum, and capacity](https://www.simpleworkload.com/en/methods/kanban-scrum-capacity.md): How do Scrum and Kanban manage team capacity?
- [Little's law](https://www.simpleworkload.com/en/methods/littles-law.md): What does Little's law say and how does it apply to an IT department?
- [Theory of constraints](https://www.simpleworkload.com/en/methods/theory-of-constraints.md): How do you apply the theory of constraints to an IT department?
- [Focus factor](https://www.simpleworkload.com/en/methods/focus-factor.md): How do you calculate a team's focus factor?

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