Capacity Planning Capabilities

Capacity planning is a process that balances the available resources to meet customer demand or the project capacity requirements. Capacity, in project management and manufacturing terms, is the most work that can be done over a certain timeframe.

In project management, the capacity planning process is very important because it’s related to critical project management knowledge areas such as:

• Resource management
• Time management
• Team management
• Work Management

Production capacity, strategic planning and project planning obviously go hand-in-hand. Planning is how one schedules the hours of the team members so that the work gets done in time.