Operations & leadership · Skill
Capacity plan
Plan resource capacity — workload analysis and utilization forecasting. Use when heading into quarterly planning, the team feels overallocated and you need the numbers, deciding whether to hire or deprioritize, or stress-testing whether upcoming projects fit the people you have.
- Works better with a connected tool
What the skill covers
The sections of its instructions, in order.
- 01 Usage
- 02 What I Need From You
- 03 Planning Dimensions
- People
- Budget
- Time
- 04 Utilization Targets
- 05 Common Pitfalls
- 06 Output
- 07 If Connectors Available
- 08 Tips
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Frequently asked questions
What does Capacity plan do?
Plan resource capacity — workload analysis and utilization forecasting. Use when heading into quarterly planning, the team feels overallocated and you need the numbers, deciding whether to hire or deprioritize, or stress-testing whether upcoming projects fit the people you have.
Is Capacity plan free to use?
Yes. Capacity plan is published by Anthropic under the Apache 2.0 licence, and you can use it with a free Phở account.
How do I use Capacity plan in Phở?
Press Open in Phở, then Try to apply it to your next message, or add the Operations set so Phở loads it whenever a request matches.
Does Capacity plan need other tools?
Some steps expect a connected tool, such as a CRM or a document store. Without one, Phở does those steps with what you paste or upload.
Copied unchanged from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins at commit d900840 and credited to Anthropic, who is not affiliated with Phở. The full instructions and licence text ship with the skill inside Phở.