How can we do sprint capacity planning?Do we have any reports for Capacity vs Velocity for tracking?

Question

Trying to get capacity planning done for my team using Jira cloud. Also, for Sprint Metrics tracking looking for reports to publish Capacity Vs Velocity for every sprint. Do we have any existing capabilities supporting this need without any plugins or additional software? Kindly assist.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

> As Jira is not supporting a sprint level adjustment of velocity based on available capacity

It's not supposed to, you're not supposed to be adjusting velocity, it's a number that comes out of your historical data.

Story points are not supposed to be used for capacity either.  Your velocity based on Story points is there to help plan how much the team can get done in the next sprint.  The simple answer to "how many story points we can accommodate" is "take a look at your previous velocity and follow the number it gives you.  (A really easy trick for those of us who are worried about planning for holidays is to log holiday as an appropriately sized story for the sprint and put it into the sprint before worrying about the rest).

Capacity planning is mostly an irrelevance to Scrum, and shouldn't be done on Story points anyway.

Saranya A_yjnh1q · Answer

Hi Nic,

Thank you for checking.  As Jira is not supporting a sprint level adjustment of velocity based on available capacity, this is a  time consuming manual process so far for us.

We are trying to get a report on Total capacity vs Total Story points delivered for every sprint. So that we can can calculate average velocity of the team and per resource as well.

Also, over sprint planning we are looking for a factor to define how much story points we can accommodate? In Rally we can see the total capacity available and plan stories accordingly.

We are looking if setting up Advanced Roadmaps can help us.

Any guidance on this or other ways will be of great help.

Saranya A_yjnh1q · Answer

Thank you, Bill.

I am sorry I should have mentioned it as Capacity tracking than planning. Yes the capacity varies each sprint based on team members allocation / availability.

We are trying to get a report on Total capacity vs Total Story points delivered for every sprint. So that we can can calculate average velocity of the team and per resource as well.

Also, over sprint planning we are looking for a factor to define how much story points we can accommodate? In Rally we can see the total capacity available and plan stories accordingly.

Looking little further Advanced Road maps seems to solve this on a high level.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/monitor-capacity-on-your-advanced-roadmaps-timeline/

I am trying to set this up for our team and see if this is solving the purpose.