{"compare":false,"blog":false,"article":false,"page":{"title":"Team capacity","lead":"Team capacity is how much more work people can take on, given their current assignments, attendance and recorded effort. Checking it before accepting a request prevents a deadline from slipping because the same person was assigned again. Working hours and leave set the total; assignments and recorded effort show how much of it is already taken.","sections":[{"heading":"The formula","html":"<ul><li><strong>Capacity</strong> = contracted hours − leave and holidays − fixed internal time.</li><li><strong>Available hours</strong> = capacity − hours already assigned.</li><li><strong>Utilization</strong> = billable hours ÷ paid hours. The <a href=\"{{route:tools/utilization-rate-calculator}}\">utilization rate calculator</a> works this out for a person or a team.</li></ul>"},{"heading":"A worked example","html":"<p>An example. Five people work 40 hours a week: 200 hours. One is on leave for two days (−16), and weekly meetings and admin take 4 hours each (−20). Capacity is 164 hours. Current assignments add up to 150 hours, so 14 hours are free. A new 20-hour request does not fit this week without moving something.</p>"},{"heading":"How PLYNTUM handles it","html":"<p>On every plan, PLYNTUM keeps assignments on tasks, attendance, leave requests and logged time per person. The workload and capacity view, which puts them side by side per person and forecasts capacity, comes with Scale. See <a href=\"{{route:platform/people}}\">people and capacity</a> and <a href=\"{{route:blog/capacity-planning}}\">capacity planning</a>.</p><p>See also <a href=\"{{route:blog/utilization-rate}}\">what utilization rate measures</a>, <a href=\"{{route:glossary/work-management}}\">work management</a> and <a href=\"{{route:glossary}}\">all terms in the glossary</a>.</p>"}]},"faq":[["What is a good utilization rate?","It depends on the role. People who deliver client work carry a higher target than managers, whose time partly goes to running the company. Set targets per role, not one figure for the whole company."],["Is capacity the same as availability?","Availability is capacity minus assigned work. Capacity is the total before assignments."],["Should capacity account for non-billable work?","Yes. Internal work uses the same hours, so subtract it when you work out capacity, before counting assignments."]]}