> ## Documentation Index
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# Engineering Capacity Planning

> Understand available capacity, committed work, allocation, and delivery constraints across your engineering organization.

## Plan from measured capacity

Engineering capacity planning compares the capacity your teams can realistically use with the work already committed to your roadmap.

Scrums.com combines project and delivery signals so you can see where capacity goes and where commitments are at risk.

## Allocation classes

Classify work consistently across:

* Feature development
* Maintenance
* Technical debt
* Support and escalations
* Unplanned work

You can then review allocation by team, project, initiative, or client.

## Commitment signals

| Signal            | Meaning                                                  |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| Sprint completion | Planned work completed within the sprint                 |
| Scope movement    | Work added after the sprint starts                       |
| Commitment ratio  | Committed work compared with completed work              |
| Forecast status   | Whether an initiative remains within its forecast window |

## Close a capacity gap

First identify the constraint. Then choose the response that fits it:

* Add an engineer for a durable skill or capacity gap.
* Deploy a team for a whole delivery unit.
* Define a managed scope for a bounded outcome.
* Use an agent for repetitive, well-specified work.
* Add infrastructure when environments or pipelines are the constraint.

Measure the same signals after the deployment to confirm whether it resolved the constraint.

## Related

* [Team observability](/docs/platform/team-observability)
* [Hire overview](/docs/hire/overview)
* [AI Development scopes](/docs/ai-development/scopes)
* [Capacity planning capability](https://www.scrums.com/platform/engineering-capacity-planning)