/cs-capacity-plan

Slash Command Source

Run the capacity-planner skill on this input:

$ARGUMENTS

Three-tool workflow

1. capacity_modeler.py — Erlang-C / queueing math: required FTE at 70/80/90% utilization, P(SLA breach) per utilization level, capacity headroom. Industry tuning --profile {support,cx,bizops,finance-ops,it-ops}.

2. utilization_analyzer.py — Red-zone detection per team member: >85% sustained = throughput collapse (Little's Law), <40% = under-loaded or wrong skills, variance >30% = unbalanced. Verdict: HEALTHY / SQUEEZED / OVERLOADED / UNBALANCED.

3. hiring_sequencer.py — 12-month quarterly hiring plan accounting for ramp curve (50% productive weeks 1-N, 100% after) + attrition + growth. Surfaces "manager trigger" point (span of control >7-8 ICs).

Hard rule

Never plan to 100% utilization. Reinertsen 2009: utilization >80% in knowledge work destroys throughput via queueing.

Distinct from

• c-level-advisor/vpe-advisor — engineering throughput specifically. Capacity-planner is for non-eng ops teams.
• c-level-advisor/chro-advisor — strategic workforce planning. Capacity-planner is tactical sizing.
• business-operations/skills/process-mapper (sibling) — finds the bottleneck. Capacity-planner sizes the team around it.
• project-management/* — delivery tracking. Capacity-planner is forward sizing.