Plan capacity from growth curves, not incidents

Steps

1. 1Forecast demand from sales pipeline + seasonality, reviewed monthly
2. 2Set headroom policy per tier (e.g., 40% at peak) with alert thresholds below it
3. 3Load-test at forecast+headroom levels, not last year's peak
4. 4Pre-negotiate procurement/reservation lead times into planning calendars
5. 5Define load-shed ladder in advance: which features drop first, who decides
6. 6Post-incident capacity reviews update curves and buffers formally

Common Pitfalls

• ▲Capacity added reactively at 95% utilization
• ▲Shed-ladder improvised during the outage it was meant for

Commands

$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill platform-delivery-capacity-planning-forecasting

$ npx skills add aniruddhaadak80/skills --skill platform-delivery-capacity-planning-forecasting -g

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