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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.

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  • Reference class forecasting

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

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Release forecast

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

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Release planning

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

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Release queue

    A release queue is the set of completed or release-ready changes waiting to reach users through a production release process. It is downstream of implementation and review, but it remains unfinished under an end-to-end delivery definition.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Replenishment

    Replenishment is the activity of deciding which demand should enter a ready queue or delivery commitment population. It balances priority, risk, readiness, and available capacity without requiring every request to be scheduled immediately.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Review capacity

    Review capacity is the effective ability of reviewers to assess eligible changes during a period. It depends on change scope, reviewer context, specialist requirements, interruptions, and the standard of review expected.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Review queue

    A review queue is unfinished change work awaiting review activity or a review decision. Its depth and age reveal demand on reviewers and the delay between implementation and the next delivery step.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Review wait

    Review wait is the queue portion of a change's review interval. It excludes the time spent actively reviewing when those boundaries can be identified.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • RICE scoring

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

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Roadmap capacity

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

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Roadmap planning

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

    Flow and capacity planning