DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE LIFE CYCLE FRAMEWORK
PRACTIICES GUIIDE
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CAPACITY PLANNING
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Document Purpose
This Practices Guide is a brief document that provides an overview describing the best practices,
activities, attributes, and related templates, tools, information, and key terminology of industry-leading
project management practices and their accompanying project management templates.
Background
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) is a
framework to enhance Information Technology (IT) governance through rigorous application of sound
investment and project management principles, and industry best practices. The EPLC provides the
context for the governance process and describes interdependencies between its project management,
investment management, and capital planning components. The EPLC framework establishes an
environment in which HHS IT investments and projects consistently achieve successful outcomes that
align with Department and Operating Division goals and objectives.
Capacity is defined as the maximum amount or number that can be received or contained. For example,
the amount of data that a computer hard disk can store is the disk’s capacity. The maximum possible data
rate received over a communication channel under ideal conditions is its capacity. Capacity can also refer
to non-technical things such as the maximum amount of work that an organization is capable of
completing in a given period of time or the maximum number of people that can physically occupy a
room.
Discrepancies in capacity and demand results in inefficiencies associated with either under-utilized
resources or unmet user demand. The goal of capacity planning is to minimize this discrepancy and to
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