Team Capacity

Team members hold a role, practice and weekly capacity. Assigned story counts, assigned estimates, actual hours and logged hours appear on the team member record. A Delivery Lead can use those values alongside the sprint scope estimate to see whether an assignment is practical.

• Starting record. Team members hold a role, practice and weekly capacity.
• Named owner. Delivery Lead checks allocation; Project Manager assigns stories; Team Member keeps work and time current.
• Current position. The active member record and assigned stories show whose planned load needs attention next. The Delivery Lead compares assigned estimates with weekly capacity before confirming a sprint scope, then checks actual hours after the work begins.

Set weekly capacity in a consistent unit and decide who maintains it when availability changes. Agree how the team uses practice and role when assigning work. Treat the capacity figures as a planning aid: the owner still decides whether a particular person has the skills and time for the stories in the scope.

Compare a member’s assigned estimate with weekly capacity before the Project Manager commits the scope. Check that the person is active and that the story’s assignee is current. Actual and logged hours help the Delivery Lead revisit the allocation after work begins; they are distinct from the planned estimate.

A sprint scope starts next week and its stories have been assigned to a developer whose estimated load is already high. The Delivery Lead compares the assigned estimate with weekly capacity, then moves a story to another active team member. The Project Manager checks the story owner and sprint scope again before the team starts work. Actual and logged hours can later show where the original estimate was low.

The Delivery Lead checks the active member’s weekly capacity and assigned estimate again after the move. The Project Manager confirms the new assignee and sprint scope on the story. Once time is logged, the lead compares actual effort with the earlier estimate to decide whether the remaining allocation still fits.

• My Stories — Assigned work a team member needs to advance.
• Stories In Flight — Current work across the delivery team.

See sprint planning for the planning handoff and review and approval for the decision record. Begin with a small project in implementation, then compare the team’s results with the data model.