AI-Driven Sprint Planning: Using LLMs to Automate Capacity Recommendations

2 fdf515 1 4/27/2025, 7:12:36 PM jiazhenxie.com ↗

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fdf515 · 3d ago
As an Engineering Manager, I’ve long struggled with the mental overhead of sprint planning across multiple specialty teams—capacity lives in my head, adjustments for holidays are manual, and it all bottlenecks on EM experience. In this post I share a lightweight script that calls the OpenAI API (with some prompt engineering) to:

Analyze the past 2–3 sprints’ velocity per specialty

Auto-adjust for bank holidays

Recommend a realistic story-point capacity range

The result: democratized planning, reduced bias, and empowered engineers to run their own sprints. Would love to hear your feedback or collaborate on pushing agile planning further with AI!