Roadmap capacity planning

Know what your team can actually carry.

TeamMath compares what your roster can supply against what your projects demand — week by week, discipline by discipline — and tells you plainly whether the roadmap fits.

Start planning See how it works

An illustrated roadmap board: coloured project bars across a year of quarters, with people planning around it.

The problem

Roadmaps are drawn in quarters. Capacity is spent in weeks.

A plan looks fine on a slide until three projects want the same two designers in the same fortnight. The spreadsheet that should have caught it double-counts the person who does both design and front-end, and nobody trusts it enough to say no.

TeamMath does one thing: it answers “does this fit?” with numbers small enough to check by hand, and tells you where and when it stops fitting.

How it works

Three inputs, one honest answer.

1
Describe the roster
People, their FTE over time, the disciplines they hold and how they split their focus between them. Overhead and absence come off the top as flat, honest assumptions.
2
Lay out the roadmap
Projects in priority order, each asking for person-weeks per discipline — or a budget, which TeamMath turns into people. Soft starts and wind-downs shape the demand.
3
Read the verdict
Fits, tight, or doesn't fit — with one sentence naming the discipline, the size of the gap in people, and the week it starts. Drag a bar and the answer updates.

The verdict

Not a dashboard. A sentence you can repeat in a meeting.

Every verdict names the discipline, the size of the gap in people and the date it begins — so the conversation moves straight to what to do about it: shift a flexible project, re-split someone's focus, or make the case for a hire.

Fits

Every discipline covers its demand in every week of the plan.

Tight

Design runs 0.5 people short for 3 weeks from 14 April.

Doesn't fit

Backend is 1.8 people short from 2 June until the end of the plan.

Example output — illustrative figures.

Features

Built to be believed.

Arithmetic you can check

No solver, no black box. Every figure traces back to a person, a share and a priority order — reproducible with a calculator in the meeting where it gets challenged.

Time spent exactly once

Someone who is half design, half engineering counts as half of each — never as a whole of both. Declared focus splits make every discipline pool a real, additive number.

Priority decides who gets whom

Each week, projects consume capacity in priority order. So the answer isn't just "we're short", it's "Beacon got the engineers; Comet is 0.8 people short from March".

Drag to re-plan

Move or stretch a project on the timeline and the capacity strip underneath recomputes as you drag. What-if questions take seconds, not a spreadsheet afternoon.

Budgets turned into people

“€30,000 of design” means nothing on its own. TeamMath converts money to hours to person-weeks with your rates and calendar, and shows the headcount it buys.

Roles for the whole team

Admins own the calendar and coefficients, planners shape the roadmap, viewers read it. Invite colleagues by email; everyone sees the same numbers.

What TeamMath deliberately isn't

No timesheets. No task boards. No assigning Anna to Project X on Tuesdays. TeamMath works one level up — pools of capacity against portfolios of demand — which is exactly the level a roadmap is decided at.

FAQ

Questions planners ask first

Is this a resource scheduler?+

No. TeamMath never assigns a person to a project. People add up to capacity pools per discipline, projects declare what they need, and the engine compares the two. That is what keeps it small enough to trust.

Do I have to track holidays and time off per person?+

No. A roadmap plans months ahead, and nobody knows which days someone will be away in October. Public holidays live in the org calendar; everything else is a flat absence percentage, per organisation or per person.

What does "people" mean in the numbers?+

Full-time equivalents for a week, after overhead and absence. "1.5 people short" means one and a half full-time people working that discipline all week would close the gap.

Who can change the plan?+

Admins and planners. Viewers see the roadmap and the verdict but can't edit — useful for stakeholders who want the answer without the controls.

Find out whether next quarter fits — before it starts.

Create an account, set up your organisation, and put your roster next to your roadmap.

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