When to use this mode
A capacity plan is based on what you know when you create it. Once execution begins, that picture changes.
Work gets completed. Estimates become more accurate. Some items take longer than expected. New work appears. A sprint may start falling behind even though the overall quarter still looks healthy.
Use Remaining effort & capacity to reassess your plan as this happens. It helps you compare the work still left with the capacity still available, so you can spot pressure early and decide whether you need to adjust the plan.
For example, you might discover that:
The quarter still fits, but the current sprint is falling behind - so some work needs to move to a later sprint.
One team won’t have enough capacity to finish its remaining work - while another team has room to take some of it on.
A high-priority item is taking longer than expected - forcing you to decide which lower-priority work should move out.
Unfinished work is likely to carry over into the next quarter - reducing the capacity available for what you’ve already planned there.
Instead of waiting until the end of a sprint or quarter to see what didn’t get done, you can identify these situations while there’s still time to make tradeoffs and replan.
How to turn on the mode
Follow these steps:
Open your Capacity Planning view and go to View Settings
Under Capacity planning mode, select Remaining effort & capacity
Once enabled, each capacity cell shows the item’s remaining effort as a read-only, grayed-out value.
💡 Note: A timeframe with no start or end date shows N/A for remaining capacity, because without dates there is no share of time to apply.
How remaining effort and capacity are calculated
When you switch to Remaining effort & capacity, Craft.io shows how much work is still left and how much capacity is still available.
Remaining effort is calculated based on an item’s effort and progress: Effort × (100% − Progress) = Remaining effort
For example:
An item estimated at 10 points that is 80% complete has 20% of its effort remaining: 10 × 20% = 2 points of remaining effort.
Remaining capacity is calculated based on your original capacity and how much time remains in the period: Capacity × % of time remaining = Remaining capacity
For example:
If a quarter has 300 points of capacity and 50% of the quarter remains, the remaining capacity is 300 × 50% = 150 points.
Craft.io compares these values to show whether the work still left fits within the capacity still available.
Reading your remaining capacity
Once you understand how remaining effort and capacity are calculated, the next step is to compare them at the level where you plan your work.
A plan can look healthy at one level while hiding pressure somewhere else. For example, your quarter may still have enough capacity overall, while a particular sprint - or a particular team within that sprint - is already overloaded and falling behind.
This is why it can be useful to look at remaining effort and capacity from more than one perspective:
Quarter - Does the remaining work still fit?
Sprint - Where is capacity under pressure?
Team - Which teams are over capacity?
Example:
At the quarter level, the remaining work still fits within the available capacity.
At the sprint level, Sprint 4 is over capacity, revealing pressure that wasn’t visible at the quarter level.
At the team level, filtering the view by team lets you compare each team’s remaining workload with its own remaining capacity.
Reassess and adjust your plan
What comes next
Introduction to capacity planning - how capacity, effort, and timeframes come together.
Plan view mode 'Actual vs planned' - the companion mid-quarter view for spotting what changed against the saved plan.
Remaining Effort & Capacity - the full feature release notes.
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