Developer Capacity Planning

Question

What product or tool do you use to do Resource Capacity planning for your development team? Currently managing a large group and trying to provide visibility into my resource availability. I am creating this in MS project, but was curious if there was a better tool/solution based off your experience.

Answer 1

Take a look at the "Evidence-Based Scheduling" features in FogBugz 7.

Answer 2

We use a Scrum backlog.

It's a list of sprints -- in priority order -- people assigned to sprints and tentative schedule.

Since the users prioritize the sprints, it's very, very visible.

There's no need for MS-project; that's overkill. A simple list based on cards tacked to a bulletin board is sufficient. A spreadsheet will work, also.