Start with gross hours
Team size, sprint length, and workday hours create the theoretical maximum capacity for the sprint.
Agile planning tool
Estimate the hours your team can safely commit to after time off, meetings, focus factor, and a delivery buffer.
How it works
Team size, sprint length, and workday hours create the theoretical maximum capacity for the sprint.
Planned absence, meetings, interruptions, reviews, and context switching reduce what the team can responsibly commit.
A buffer protects the sprint from production issues, unexpected QA findings, and release coordination work.
Best for
Use this calculator before sprint planning, roadmap commitment, release planning, or weekly delivery review. It helps teams explain why committed work should be lower than calendar capacity.
Many teams start between 60% and 75%. Teams with heavy meetings, support load, or frequent release work should use a lower value.
The point estimate is intentionally rough. Use your team's historical velocity when available, and use this calculator mainly to avoid overcommitting.
Korespace connects the capacity decision to work items, owners, release risk, AI summaries, and retrospectives so planning improves over time.
Long-tail use cases
Capacity planning has many variations. This page intentionally covers the practical searches agile teams use before sprint planning.
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