Everhour embeds time tracking in Linear workflows, keeping project and issue hours ready for capacity review.
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Use this page when you need to decide who can take the next Linear issue without overloading the week. The practical question is simple: each person has a weekly capacity, current assignments consume part of it, and new project work should fit inside the remaining space. The decision becomes clearer when you compare people by available hours, assigned project load, and known time off.
Linear issues carry the work context: team, project, assignee, priority, estimate, cycle, status, and labels. Treat those fields as the assignment record, then add an hour view beside them for capacity planning. A person with fewer assigned issues can still be full if those issues carry large hour estimates, review work, or cross-project commitments.
Start with one week and one person. Record available working hours, subtract scheduled time off, then list the Linear project work assigned to that person for the same period. Use hour estimates for planned effort, because Linear issue estimates are effort or size values and do not define a native conversion from points to hours or cost.
A useful workload row names the person, project, issue, planned hours, date range, and tracked hours to date. Status and priority help sequence the work, while labels separate support, maintenance, bugs, and feature work. The goal is not a perfect forecast. The goal is a visible commitment list that shows which assignments fit, which ones collide, and which ones need a different owner.
Over-capacity work usually hides in three places: part-time schedules, time off, and shared engineers assigned across multiple Linear projects. A full-time engineer with 40 available hours and 46 planned hours is overbooked before the week starts. A part-time engineer with 24 available hours can look underloaded by issue count while still carrying too many planned hours.
Use utilization only after defining the ratio. Billable-to-available utilization measures client-chargeable work against capacity. Busy-time utilization measures planned or tracked work against capacity. Those are different management signals. Capacity allocation needs the second view first, because the immediate decision is whether the person can take more work without pushing existing Linear issues into delay.
A one-off capacity check works for a small handoff: you inspect current assignments, compare planned hours with weekly availability, and move one issue. That snapshot stops being enough when managers need an approval trail, recurring project review, or a reliable record of planned load against actual tracked hours.
Everhour turns that review into a managed workflow for Linear projects. The browser extension adds embedded controls, syncs Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data into reports, and keeps timers, manual entries, day or week timesheets, project totals, estimates, and reported time tied to the work. Planned capacity can then be checked against tracked hours project by project.
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Allocate capacity by person, week, and project. Start with each person's available hours, subtract time off, then assign Linear issue work using hour estimates for the effort you expect during that period. Compare total planned hours with weekly capacity before assigning more work.
Project, assignee, priority, status, labels, cycle, and estimate matter most. The project shows where the commitment belongs, the assignee owns the capacity impact, and priority helps decide what moves first when planned hours exceed availability.
Issue count should not drive capacity allocation by itself. Ten small issues can fit inside a week, while two large issues can exceed it. Use issue count as a workload visibility cue, then make assignment decisions from planned hours against each person's weekly availability.
The common mistake is reviewing only one project at a time. Engineers often split work across several Linear projects, so each project can look reasonable while the person is overloaded in total. Combine all assigned project work before deciding who takes the next issue.
Tracked time shows the gap between planned hours and actual work. A recurring pattern of 20 planned hours becoming 32 tracked hours means future assignments need larger hour estimates, smaller scope, or more review capacity before the same person takes similar work again.
Everhour embeds tracking controls in Linear through its browser extension and syncs Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data into Everhour reports. Managers can review time by the same project and issue context the team already uses for assignment decisions.
Everhour Resource Planning sets full-time, part-time, or custom weekly capacity per person, then shows planned assignments on a visual timeline. The weekly summary flags overallocation in red, and planned capacity can be compared with actual tracked time.
Plan Linear assignments from real availability, then let Everhour connect embedded issue tracking, synced project data, and capacity review into one workflow for better engineering workload decisions.
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