Capacity

Forecasting load two sprints out, not two days

Short-horizon planning is just firefighting with a calendar. Here is what a longer view needs.

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Rumman Khan
Co-founder & Engineering Lead
5 min read

Two days of visibility lets you react. Two sprints lets you decide — to hire, to move scope, or to tell a client the date honestly and early.

Forecasting that far out needs committed work, real availability and a history of how estimates have drifted. All three are things you already have.

Rumman Khan
Co-founder & Engineering Lead · Rumman leads engineering at Huble. Previously shipped infrastructure at a Series B observability startup. Writes about distributed systems, the ethics of workforce monitoring, and why most time-tracking tools get it wrong.

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