Vertical capacity limits in the timeline view
Thomas van Maanen
In the timeline view, I'd like to be able to see if the work that I planned corresponds with the available capacity of my team at any given moment in time. The main reason for using the timeline view is to plan all work so that the you don't exceed maximum capacity of your team (because you can't do everything at the same time).
Current board limits limit capacity horizontally, but I'm looking for a way to check capacity vertically. How many items can I plan at the same time so I don't exceed our two weekly sprint capacity?
Therefore I'd like to be able to set a vertical board and/or lane limit in the timeline view (in story points, hours, card count or whatever you want) for items that can be stacked above one another at any given moment in time. In our case a sprint lasts two weeks, so I want to be able to check these limits for two week periods over the whole timeline. Dragging this two week period left and right should constantly update the capacity taken at that time.
Also I'd like to be able to set different limits for every lane in my timeline and for every status. The current version only supports overall board limits which are the same for all swim lanes.
Dovidas Baranauskas
Thomas van Maanen do you mean a setup where you would be able to view the capacity of the team based by swim lanes in a timeline view, showing how much capacity is taken or how much there is still available. Could it be something like this?
In the example cards have estimation and each swim lane represents a different team and they have their capacity on how much work they can handle currently.
Thomas van Maanen
Dovidas Baranauskas: Thanks for your reply. Definately something like this. But the problem with this is that the capacity that is taken is the sum of all estimations of all the tickets in that swimlane. Horizontally there's an infinite amount of time in this view, so the capacity that's taken in this view doesn't say a lot. I'm looking for a way to check capacity vertically.
Also, Team 1 might be bigger than Team 2, so they would have more capacity. In the current version you can only set limits for the whole board, so every swimlane has the exact same limit.
I get the point on how this set up now and why is the way it is. But maybe you can think with me: I'm working on a long term roadmap for rest of the year. So I need a way to check when there's capacity to start a project, based on the two week sprint capacity of our teams. What I did in my timeline setup is add up the total sprint capacity of our teams for the whole year and set that as a limit. Stacking all cards for the whole year on top of each other wouldn't exceed that limit. But that doesn't say that I've made a representative roadmap planning, because everything is planned at the same time. So I also need a way to check capacity vertically.
Maybe what I'm looking for is a way to add sprints in the mix: limit the amount of story points that can be planned vertically during a given amount of (sprint) time (in our case a sprint is two weeks) and check if that limit is exceeded at any moment in time.
I hope I explained this right :-)