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Team availability for the next two weeks ​

Cadence: Weekly, or ad hoc · Who: Managers and Owners

Situation ​

A prospect asks if you can start a new project next month. A PM needs to pull someone onto an urgent piece. You need to know who has real capacity — not who looks free on a calendar, but who has unallocated hours after accounting for their current commitments and any time off.

Example phrasings ​

  • "who's available next two weeks"
  • "capacity for the next fortnight"
  • "team availability"

What VERA returns ​

A table, one row per person:

| Name | Discipline | Committed hours | Available hours | Remaining | OOO in window |

  • Committed hours is the prorated share of their current allocations that falls in the two-week window, not the lifetime total. This is the important bit — envelopes are project-lifetime, but this play tells you what lands in this window.
  • Available hours is the window capacity net of time off already approved
  • Remaining = Available − Committed. A negative number means over-committed.

Sorted: most remaining capacity first.

Any person whose commitments include envelopes without a project deadline is flagged — their window share is an estimate based on a 12-week rolling horizon.

Who can run it ​

Managers and Owners. Managers see their own team members; Owners see everyone.

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