How do you do capacity planning?

How do you do capacity planning? What functionality do you use to determine if people are over or under utilized? Or if a release or sprint is going to be impacted by resource contraints? Or when you need to find more people to work on the project?

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For a start, I'd suggest to look at using Kanban in GreenHopper - http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH052/Adding+Constraints+to+your+Task+Board+Columns+%28Kanban%29. Also, you could make use of the statistical marker on the planning board to group issues by assignee - http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/GH/Using+Statistical+Markers+to+Group+Issues

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Thanks. Do you know if there's a way to group issues by assignee group, ie. dev group or qa group?

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No worries! Looks like grouping by groups is not possible at the moment

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Hi Aris, I am new to JIRA and for the past few days have been trying to set a team scrum capacity planning unsuccessfully. I have been using the Tempo planner but cannot find a process to set everything step by step and struggling to get it working. Can you help?

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We're also using Tempo plugin as it produces some nice reports where you can see what time everyone has logged across the team. It will also tell you if & when people are under their "planned" time.

We're also starting to use it to schedule work in the future as well, which in turn feeds into theur utilization data.