The Last Capacity Planning Sheet You'll Ever Need (opens in new tab)

Originally published at theendofcoding.com. It's the last week of the quarter. The team is going to miss two of the five committed epics — they already know it. The retro that follows will use the word "velocity" eleven times and the word "capacity" zero. The plan they committed to was a target with a spreadsheet stapled to it. The capacity model — the actual arithmetic of who would be available for how many days, doing what kind of work — never existed. Frederick Brooks wrote the line that e...