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CapacityIQ

Setting up your team in CapacityIQ

Add team members, calibrate capacity, group into teams.

3 min · last updated 2026-05-01

CapacityIQ tracks team utilization across daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly horizons. Step one: add your team.

Add team members

CapacityIQ → Teams & People → + Add member

Required fields:

  • Name
  • Weekly capacity (hours per week — default 40)

Optional but recommended:

  • Email (for notifications)
  • Avatar / photo
  • Role (PM, Engineer, Designer, etc.)
  • Time zone
  • Team (group members into teams — see below)

Add up to 50 members on Standard tier; unlimited on Pro.

Adjust capacity for non-40-hour cases

The default 40-hour weekly capacity is rarely right. Adjust for:

  • Part-time — set to 20h, 24h, etc.
  • Contractors — set to whatever's contracted
  • PMs / managers with meetings — many teams set 30h "build time" capacity, since 10h goes to meetings
  • People in training / onboarding — set lower for the first month

The honest version: spend 10 minutes calibrating these per-person. Garbage in = garbage out.

Group into teams

If you have multiple teams, group members:

Teams & People → + Add team → name → drag members in

Examples:

  • Mobile, Core, Growth (by product area)
  • Eng, Design, PM (by function)
  • Cape Town, Lagos, Nairobi (by location)

You can be in multiple teams. Useful for cross-functional members.

Daily / weekly / monthly view

The CapacityIQ Dashboard shows team utilization in 5 time horizons (top-right tabs):

  • Daily — for firefighting decisions ("Can engineer X take this urgent bug?")
  • Weekly — sprint planning, near-term commitments
  • Monthly — committing to multi-sprint initiatives
  • Quarterly — strategic roadmap decisions
  • Yearly — hiring decisions, OKR setting

Set the utilization target

CapacityIQ defaults to 80% as the healthy utilization target.

Why 80% not 100%?

  • 100% utilization assumes zero unplanned work, no sick days, no meetings, no PR review.
  • In practice, 100% on the schedule = 70% actual delivery.
  • 80% gives you 1 day per week of buffer for the inevitable.

Adjust per team in Settings → Team → Utilization target.

Color coding

UtilizationColorMeaning
<60%GrayUnder-utilized
60-80%GreenHealthy
80-95%AmberTight
>95%RedOver-committed

What's next

After your team is set up:

  1. Allocating hours to initiatives — connect work to capacity
  2. Reading the dashboard — what each chart tells you
  3. Capacity check before commitment — the rule that took us from 60% to 89% on-time delivery

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