Year Wheel · Load across the year · Component
The committed load
What has already been promised, placed in the months it will actually land in.
The deliverable
What it is
Commitments are made one at a time and assessed one at a time. The total in a given month is rarely looked at until that month arrives.
Placing each commitment where the work actually falls is what makes the total visible while there is still time to change it.
One level in
What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
A launch in November occupies December, which is where next year’s planning was supposed to happen.
The other components in load across the year
The real capacity
How much the organisation can actually do in a given month, after everything that is already spoken for.
LearnThe over-commitment
The months where committed load exceeds real capacity — visible in advance, and resolvable while it is still theoretical.
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