speckit-scope-budget

To convert a specification into a sprint time budget, you need a tool that estimates total effort by applying complexity scoring to requirements. This process generates structured hours per phase and requirement, making setup, review, documentation, and risk overhead visible for sprint planning.

Allocating hours to sprint requirements and phases requires mapping estimated workload to individual items using complexity scoring. This approach breaks the total effort into prioritized phases and maps dependencies to guide implementation order, ensuring structured delivery sequencing.

To handle scope exceeding available sprint time, you perform a sprint fit analysis against available hours. This process identifies overflows and proposes concrete trade-offs, allowing you to cut or defer requirements to align the project plan with the available time budget.

Adding an explicit risk buffer to sprint planning involves categorizing setup, review, and documentation overhead alongside an uncertainty buffer. This method ensures risks are honestly calculated rather than guessed, reflecting real project uncertainty directly within the time budget.

Yes, you need a spec.md file to generate a sprint time budget, typically within a project containing a .specify directory. The tool reads this specification to extract requirements, using optionally available plan.md and tasks.md files to refine the sprint fit analysis.

Using explicit overhead categories instead of guessed time buffers ensures that setup, review, and documentation efforts are visibly accounted for. This honest allocation prevents underestimating project scope and provides accurate phase totals for realistic sprint scheduling.