Manage capacity
Validate your plans against the team's actual availability
Assess team capacity
Make sure your roadmap is realistic before you fully commit. Partner with engineering to estimate the high-level effort needed to build major functionality. Then, review the timing of your plans against the team's availability. This keeps your roadmap grounded in reality as you determine the best way to accomplish it.
Create alternative scenarios
Identify and solve resourcing issues ahead of time. Explore what happens if you schedule work in a different order or bring in more teams. Compare multiple versions of your plan — evaluating the trade-offs as you adjust feature timing and scope. Discuss your options with the team and align on the best approach.
Optimize workloads
Refine your plans as you get closer to implementation. Update feature estimates based on the underlying technical requirements. Set release capacity and assign work to the right team members. Then, analyze each person's workload to see who is over- or underutilized. This is fundamental to sustaining team performance and successfully meeting your launch dates.
Adapt over time
Understand how long it took to complete the work. Log the amount of time spent implementing each feature — so you can compare estimates to actuals. Use these insights to improve the way you assess effort and manage the team's workload. Ultimately, learning from what went well (and what did not) is key to creating an achievable roadmap.
Top capabilities for managing capacity
Manage capacity | Define work schedules, set up teams, and create different planning scenarios | |
Estimate effort | Create estimates in time, story points, t-shirt sizes, people, or cost to match how you work | |
Sync estimates | Connect Aha! Roadmaps and Aha! Develop to create an integrated capacity planning workflow | |
Refine the details | Capture initial, detailed, and actual estimates to assess effort at different stages | |
Report on capacity | Analyze team and individual capacity to proactively resolve potential resourcing issues | |
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