Calculate sprint capacity.

Sprint capacity is the amount of focused time your team can realistically commit to during a sprint, not the raw number of hours on the calendar. Committing to gross availability is the fastest way to overload a sprint, so this calculator subtracts time off and ceremonies, then applies a focus factor that reflects the meetings, context switching, and support work that fill a normal day.

Start with your team size, sprint length, and productive hours per day. Add total PTO and holidays, the hours spent in planning, standups, review, and retro, then set a focus factor. Most teams land between 60% and 80%. The result is a capacity target in hours, plus a suggested story-point goal when you provide a recent velocity figure.

Pair this with the sprint velocity calculator to check the point target against your real delivery trend, and use planning poker cards to estimate individual backlog items. After each sprint, revisit your focus factor in the retrospective so your capacity planning keeps getting more accurate.