units
Use whatever measurement your team prefers. We’ll apply dice modifiers as a percent.
Current adjustment 0%
Adjusted capacity 40
Planning Toolkit
Capacity Planner Dice
Roll playful dice for PTO, meetings, and curveballs to stress-test your sprint capacity. Share the summary as a Jira comment or planning note.
Each die represents a capacity factor. Roll until the combination feels realistic for your sprint.
Planning summary
Roll the dice to generate a capacity summary.
Recent rolls
Capacity Planner Dice – sprint capacity planning with dice and shareable summaries
Capacity Planner Dice is a sprint planning tool that uses dice rolls to model PTO, meetings, and wildcards. It helps agile teams estimate capacity, surface risk, and share the result with stakeholders.
Use this planning dice simulator to turn abstract capacity discussions into fast, repeatable sprint conversations with a visual summary you can copy into Jira, Confluence, or Slack.
The tool is built for Scrum teams, kanban planners, and anyone who wants a more playful way to assess workload variability.
Table of Contents
- 1. What Is Capacity Planner Dice?
- 2. How to Use It?
- 3. Key Features & Customization
- 4. Rolling Capacity Dice
- 5. Sharing and Exporting
- 6. When to Use This Capacity Planner?
- 7. We Want to Hear Your Feedback
- 8. Need an Alternative Tool?
1. What Is Capacity Planner Dice?
Capacity Planner Dice is a sprint load simulator that helps teams estimate capacity with a mix of planned work, PTO, meetings, and wildcard events. It uses dice rolls to make capacity planning more tangible and less abstract.
The primary keyword is capacity planning, and this tool is designed to help teams spot risks before committing to a sprint.
By rolling dice and reviewing the adjusted totals, teams can discuss trade-offs faster and align on realistic capacity without lengthy spreadsheet work.
2. How to Use It?
- Enter your team or sprint label in the Team / Sprint field so the summary is easy to share.
- Set your planned capacity and choose whether to include positive boosts or wildcard events.
- Roll the dice and review the percent adjustments shown in the summary panel.
- Copy the summary to share with your team or add it to your sprint notes.
3. Key Features & Customization
- Team label field: name your sprint or planning session for clearer communication.
- Planned capacity input: use story points, ideal hours, or any units your team prefers.
- Wildcard controls: customize whether to include positive boosts or risk events in the roll.
- History tracking: compare recent rolls and keep a record of planning conversations.
- Copyable summary: export the result into Jira, Confluence, Slack, or sprint planning notes.
4. Rolling Capacity Dice
Rolling capacity dice is the core feature that makes this tool useful for agile teams. Each die represents a different capacity factor, and the combined result shows how your sprint load may change.
This approach helps teams have more concrete conversations about uncertainty, so they can agree on commitments with a clearer sense of risk and slack.
Capacity Planner Dice is especially valuable when you're planning around recurring meetings, planned time off, or unexpected work that could shift delivery expectations.
5. Sharing and Exporting
Use the Copy summary button to capture the roll outcome and paste it directly into Jira, Confluence, or Slack. This keeps everyone aligned with the same numbers and reasoning.
The recent roll history also helps you compare multiple scenarios, so you can share not only a single outcome but a track record of planning decisions.
6. When to Use This Capacity Planner?
Use Capacity Planner Dice when your team needs a faster, more visual way to talk about sprint load. It reduces guesswork and creates a shared reality for your planning conversation.
- Before sprint planning to validate your planned velocity.
- When you want to discuss PTO and meetings without long spreadsheet sessions.
- To compare different workload scenarios during backlog refinement.
- When you need a quick, collaborative tool for distributed agile teams.
- To collect and share planning results with stakeholders or your product owner.
7. We Want to Hear Your Feedback
If you have feedback on dice weights, export options, or capacity planning workflows, please share it on the Feedback page. Your input helps improve the tool for every team.
8. Need an Alternative Tool?
If you want a faster decision maker instead of a planning simulator, try Wheel for quick spinning choices. If you need a simpler team pick tool, Random Name Picker is good for fair selections. For a short icebreaker or decision prompt, Choices Spinner is also a great choice.
