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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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  • Target date

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

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  • Team capacity

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

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Theory of constraints

    The theory of constraints focuses improvement on the system's current limiting constraint. The familiar cycle is to identify the constraint, use it effectively, align other work, elevate capacity when needed, and repeat when the constraint moves.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Throughput

    Throughput is the number of work items completed during a defined period. In software delivery, the item might be a pull request, deployed change, or customer request, and the chosen item boundary determines what the result means.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Throughput forecast

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

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Throughput rate

    Throughput rate is completed work divided by the interval in which it was completed. It is a rate version of throughput and requires a stable definition of item, completion, and time period.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Throughput variability

    Throughput variability is the spread of completed-item counts across time periods for a defined work population. It affects capacity planning and forecasting because the average rate does not describe every interval.

    Flow and capacity planning

  • Triage queue

    A triage queue contains requests that have arrived but have not yet been classified or routed into a delivery, incident, support, or rejection path. Its age measures intake delay rather than implementation delay.

    Flow and capacity planning