Team

Workload and overlaps

Who is busy when, and who has two things at once. The workload panel counts each person's working days per period; Resolve overlaps spreads double bookings out in one step.

The workload panel

Display → Workload opens a panel under the chart with one row per person and one cell per day, week or month (it follows the zoom). It scrolls with the timeline, and the busiest people are at the top.

Cell	Means
Green	Up to the working days of the period: the person has at most one issue at a time
Orange	More than the working days: some of their issues overlap
Red	More than one and a half times: heavily overbooked
The number	Working days of scheduled issues in that period

Parents and milestones do not count, so work is counted once.
Issues without an assignee or without dates are left out.
Hover a cell for the exact numbers. The panel shows up to eight people at once and scrolls for more.

The chart grouped by assignee with the workload panel underneath: a row per person, cells per week, orange where issues overlap — Grouped by assignee with the workload panel: orange weeks are double bookings.

Grouping by assignee (Display → Group by → Assignee) and coloring by assignee make the same picture on the chart itself. Save it as a view such as Team workload for the weekly planning meeting.

Resolve overlaps

When someone has two issues at the same time, Resolve overlaps… appears in the workload panel and in Plan health. It spreads each person's work out so they do one issue at a time:

Of two overlapping issues, the one that starts later moves to the person's first free time that is long enough for it, keeping its length. On the same start day, the higher-ranked issue keeps its place.
Issues in progress or done stay where they are, and so do issues that ended before today.
Nothing moves earlier than it is.
What waits for a moved issue follows it, so dependencies hold; if that creates a new overlap, it is resolved too.

The Resolve overlaps dialog over the team workload view: the people who are overbooked, twelve issues with their old and new dates, and the new finish date two days later — Three people had overlapping issues; twelve moves fix it and the plan finishes two days later.

The dialog names the overbooked people, lists every move (old dates struck through, new dates after) and says how the finish date changes. Move N issues writes them as one step: one Undo takes them all back. In draft mode the moves go into the draft, to try before publishing.

Before you resolve

Overlaps between issues already in progress cannot be moved; reassign one of them in the details panel instead. Unassigned issues are never queued, so assign the work first for a realistic plan.