Setting up your team in CapacityIQ
Add team members, calibrate capacity, group into teams.
CapacityIQ tracks team utilization across daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly horizons. Step one: add your team.
Add team members
CapacityIQ → Teams & People → + Add memberRequired 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 inExamples:
- 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
| Utilization | Color | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| <60% | Gray | Under-utilized |
| 60-80% | Green | Healthy |
| 80-95% | Amber | Tight |
| >95% | Red | Over-committed |
What's next
After your team is set up:
- Allocating hours to initiatives — connect work to capacity
- Reading the dashboard — what each chart tells you
- Capacity check before commitment — the rule that took us from 60% to 89% on-time delivery
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