Enable capacity planning in your plan

Before you can use capacity planning

On your board

• Ensure that sprints are enabled in team-managed software scrum projects. In company-managed projects, sprints are enabled by default, but they can be turned off in team-managed projects. Read how to enable sprints in team-managed projects.

• Estimate work items using either story points or hours/days.

• We recommend that you create sprints on the boards for scrum teams. If you create one, your plan can infer future sprints based on the length and defined end dates. These sprints show as Projected sprints. See what other sprint states are in your plan.

In your plan

• Add teams to your plan.

• Link those teams with a work item source in your plan. For scrum projects, link the team to a board. For kanban projects, it’s not essential to link to a board.

Once completed, you can view team capacity in your plan.

To view capacity on your timeline:

1. Navigate the View settings menu and group your work items by Team or Sprint.

2. Select the checkbox next to Show capacity on timeline.

Show capacity on your Program board

Capacity information is enabled by default on the Program board, provided you’ve added your sprints as part of your board’s configuration. See the steps to add sprints to your Program board.