Sprint Planning Calculator
Calculate your team's sprint capacity, apply risk buffers, and get a recommended story point commitment with confidence levels.
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Sprint Planning Best Practices
Use Yesterday's Weather
Your best predictor of next sprint's velocity is the average of the last 3 sprints. Resist the temptation to plan for your "best case" -- plan for your average.
Always Include a Buffer
Unplanned work, production incidents, and scope creep happen every sprint. A 20% risk buffer is not slack -- it is realistic planning that builds trust with stakeholders.
Account for Real Capacity
No one codes 8 hours a day. Between standups, reviews, Slack, and context-switching, 5-6 productive hours is realistic. Plan for capacity, not calendar time.
Velocity
What your team actually delivered in past sprints, measured in story points. It is a backward-looking, empirical metric. Velocity naturally accounts for meetings, interruptions, and other overhead because it reflects real output.
Capacity
How much time your team has available in the upcoming sprint, measured in hours. It is forward-looking and based on team size, working days, and PTO. Capacity tells you the theoretical maximum -- velocity tells you what is realistic.
Best approach: Use velocity as your primary planning input, and capacity as a sanity check. If capacity drops significantly (PTO, holidays), scale velocity proportionally.
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