Doncheli Planning

Don Cheli: Weekly Team Planning

Instructions

1. Collect inputs:

• List of candidate items (RFCs, stories, bugs, tech debt)
• Team roster with names and available capacity (hours or days)
• Focus factor (default: 0.7 — 70% of calendar time is productive)

1. Score each item using WSJF (Weighted Shortest Job First):

• WSJF = (Business Value + Time Criticality + Risk Reduction) / Job Size
• Score each dimension 1–13 (Fibonacci)

1. Sort by WSJF descending; mark items that exceed available capacity as OUT
2. Assign items to individuals, pairs or squads respecting:

• Skill fit (if declared)
• WIP limit per person (default: 2 concurrent items)
• Dependencies between items

1. Output the planning board and capacity summary

Output Format

## Weekly Planning — 

### Capacity
| Person/Squad     | Available | Focus Factor | Effective Capacity |
|------------------|-----------|--------------|--------------------|
|            | X days    | 0.7          | Y days             |

### WSJF Scoring
| Item             | BV | TC | RR | Size | WSJF | Status  |
|------------------|----|----|----|------|------|---------|
|            | X  | X  | X  | X    | X.X  | IN/OUT  |

### Assignments
| Item             | Assignee         | Estimated Effort | Dependencies |
|------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------|
|            |       | X days           | —            |

### Items Deferred (OUT)
-  — reason: capacity / dependency / missing info

### Open Risks / Blockers
- …

Quality Gate

• Total assigned effort must not exceed team effective capacity
• No person assigned more than WIP limit concurrent items
• Every OUT item must have a stated reason

Do not use this skill when

• The user wants to plan a single feature in isolation (use doncheli-estimate instead)
• There is only one person and fewer than 3 items (a simple list suffices)

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: doncheli
• Source: doncheli/don-cheli-sdd
• License: Apache-2.0
• Homepage: https://doncheli.tv

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.