Capacity Planning

Tips to avoid the pitfalls that can take the happiness out of your work — The corporate world and society in general have historically romanticized the idea of hustle. Many in the software industry workforce today have been rewarded for over-exhausting and stretching themselves at some point in their career. This hardly ever ended well. …

Intro Capacity planning is key requirement in high business critical, always changing, high pace work streams. Tracking requirements and external asks, identifying critical paths, risk assessment on parallelisation, classifying your backlog into CtB (Change the Business) vs RtB (Run the Business). …

Capacity planning is the process of determining the capacity requirements for an IT system and ensuring that those requirements are met. In Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), capacity planning is critical for ensuring that services are able to meet demand and maintain high levels of availability. …

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an approach to software development that enables organizations to scale agile practices and processes across multiple teams, departments, and even whole enterprises. …

The most important part of the Elasticsearch deployment is the capacity planning. Where we need to define the setup that can work in a production environment, with a load that can be expected, based on the business need and analysis. My intention here is to share a Flow of Images…

COVID is over for now and employees are going back to the office. Nonetheless, a hybrid model has emerged where employees still work a few days from home. This really creates an opportunity for employers to reduce expensive real estate footprints while employees continue to enjoy telecommuting. …

How to understand your capacity — If you’ve seen Rudolph: The Red-Nosed Reindeer, you’ll remember the Island of Misfit Toys. When sitting around a fire on Christmas Eve, the sad little misfit doll said, “I haven’t any dreams left to dream.” This line contains a profound but familiar sadness — giving up on a better future…

Are you still using spreadsheets to create your sprint plan? — My official title is “Sr Product Manager” and has been for some time, in my current company and several positions in the past. That title does not always represent everything I become responsible for in order to be successful. …

The process of the determining how much work can be done in a given timeframe! For any given Project, Sprint or Task it is very important to calculate your team's capacity forehand before starting to work on it. Capacity provides you to calculate your strength. A war cannot be won…