For all those capacity planning lovers!

For all those big believers of capacity-based planning!

Capacity is one of those nice to have inputs for planning and never a pre-requisite data for decision making.

When the capacity is considered quite seriously in your planning context, you are for sure subscribing to a system filled with enough variability.

Yet you haven’t heard the bad news, which is — Committing to full capacity in your planning introduces variability, in turn pulling down all those measures you have taken to appreciate predictability in your system.

Committing to full capacity in your planning introduces variability, in turn pulling down all those measures you have taken to appreciate predictability in your system.

In short, it is never a plan to fill capacity, instead an event to focus on committing to accomplish an outcome collectively.