Features: How to do a rough planning without overloading teams

[Carmen Popp]

Hello,

our product owners create features with a rough estimate and already know which team is appropriate to implement this feature. Unfortunately you cannot assign a Feature to a specific Team. 

Yeah you might say this is not agile... just prioritize the Features and the teams will pick the top most. But we have some areas where only specialized teams can handle the topic. 

As those specialists are rare, it can happen that those teams are overloaded. 

How to handle such cases?

What we tried so far. 

1. Grid View of Features:
The PO added tags to each Feature and assigned the Features to Program Increments. In the Feature list I filtered for a specific tag. Unfortunately I do not have the possibility to sum up the Points for the filtered list. To get this information I have to

• export the list to Excel
• Adjust the column format 'convert to number'
• Add Sum function 

As we would have to do this for every Team.... not efficient to use :-(

2. Feature Backlog
I opened the backlog for Features... there I can see the Estimate in points for all items for e.g. a specific Program increment. Cool I thought... then I filtered to only see features with a specific tag

Unfortunately the view still shows the estimate for ALL items but not for the filtered view :-(

Any other ideas or best practices?