Commitment Driven Iteration Planning

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We do commitment driven sprint planning, and use the number of hours in a sprint to gauge when we're 'full'. We typically start our planning meetings by determining the team's total capacity (number of hours) for a sprint. This number changes sprint by sprint (due to vacations, holidays, corporate training, etc.). We currently create an excel spreadsheet to determine this number.. listing the folks available * number of days available * average hours available per day.

It would be great if I could do this straight from SWP. Perhaps on the new sprint dialog... entering the number of hours each team member will be available for the upcoming sprint. When committing items to the backlog and identifying tasks, it would be cool to see a visual indicator on the 'Total Hours' column after we've exceeded this number.

I have several teams, and a few across the 'pond' so I can't attend each sprint planning meeting.. I'd like to visually see they've determined capacity, and are using this to determine commitments.

Note, we use our velocity as a sanity check on our commitments to ensure we're not too over / under committed... or if we are - we're aware of this.

Thanks,

Chuck