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Make sense of queues, work in progress, forecasting, and team capacity. These concepts explain why a busy team can still struggle to finish work.

Terms beginning with I

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  • Idle capacity

    Idle capacity is unused capacity under a stated boundary and time window. It can be valuable slack that absorbs variation, or it can signal missing demand, a dependency, or a policy that prevents safe pulling.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Impact effort matrix

    Impact effort matrix is a concept used in software delivery planning to describe a condition, relationship, estimate, or decision about engineering work.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Intake capacity

    Intake capacity is a concept used in software delivery planning to describe a condition, relationship, estimate, or decision about engineering work.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Item size

    Item size describes the work unit used in flow analysis. It may use changed behavior, files, stories, or another local convention, but comparisons require a consistent definition and awareness of complexity.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Iteration planning

    Iteration planning is a concept used in software delivery planning to describe a condition, relationship, estimate, or decision about engineering work.

    Flow and capacity planning