Velocity vs. Capacity: What Government Agile Teams Get Wrong
Velocity tells you how fast a team usually goes; capacity tells you how far it can go this sprint. Here’s why the difference trips up public-sector teams.
How to Calculate Team Capacity When Half Your Team Is Part-Time or Detailed Elsewhere
Roster headcount lies in government. Here’s a bottom-up framework to turn part-time, detailed, and shared staff into a defensible sprint capacity number.
Aligning Sprint Planning with Capacity Planning: A Practical Guide for Public-Sector Teams
Government teams that deliver predictably plan sprints and capacity together. A practical framework, a worked example, and how to make it repeatable in Jira.
Jira Now Auto-Manages Sprints Natively — Here’s What It Still Doesn’t Solve
Jira Cloud now starts and completes sprints automatically. It’s a real improvement — but it requires parallel sprints site-wide, has no exportable audit trail, and stops at single-sprint scheduling. Here’s where Sprint Automation for Jira still earns its place.
Three Divim Jira Apps: Runs on Atlassian + Cloud Fortified
Earning one Atlassian trust signal is hard. Three of our Jira Cloud apps now hold both Runs on Atlassian and Cloud Fortified at the same time: here’s why that’s a big deal for your data and your delivery.
Sprint Automation for Jira: Log Export & a Fuller Audit Trail
The latest update to Sprint Automation for Jira Cloud makes the Application logs page more useful: your sort order is remembered, you can export any log table to CSV or JSON, and sprint lifecycle events now appear in the audit trail.
Why Sprint Capacity Planning Matters More in Government Than Anywhere Else
In government agile, overcommitting costs more and recovery room is smaller. Here’s why capacity planning — not just sprint planning — deserves a front seat, with a practical five-habit framework and a worked example.
Retrospective Release Planning: Forecast Agile Releases From Your Team’s Real Track Record
Story-point estimates are forward-looking guesses. A statistical, retrospective approach forecasts your agile release date from your team’s real past throughput, and it’s a far more honest number to hand a stakeholder.
How Release Planning for Jira Complements Jira Align
Jira Align aligns strategy to execution across your portfolio. See how Release Planning for Jira complements it, adding probabilistic, capacity-aware release dates you can actually commit to.
Announcing Release Planning 2.9.0: The Enterprise Portfolio Update
Key Takeaways Release Planning 2.9.0, the Enterprise Portfolio Update, extends Release Management, Roadmaps, Portfolio PPM & Timeline from single-release forecasting...