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title: "Planning Accuracy"
description: "What is Planning Accuracy and how is it calculated?"
url: https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/11145176-planning-accuracy
collection: "Key concepts and metrics"
updated: 2026-04-22
language: en
---

# Planning Accuracy

What is Planning Accuracy and how is it calculated?

## What is it?

Planning Accuracy shows how closely your ‘[planned week](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6964308-member-planning-in-bramble.md)’ lined up with what actually occurred.

It's a quick way to gauge how good you are getting at predicting the future…well at least how well you are planning for the upcoming week in Bramble!

![](https://staticfiles.gleap.io/gattachments/LmiLgb5qoR6Z6m1EcEjEuP3OB5X4RyKdpa4KY8xBlHycJBtIuDjTuueEvUMpZKS5I5PLPF2Hy7p.png)

_Source: An Individual Contributors’ Hub in Bramble: Clarisa may want to adjust her plan going forward- 0% Planning Accuracy means your actual results perfectly matched the planned results._

## How it works

  
For each team member/team, Bramble looks at five metrics and compares what you/your team planned for them against what actually resulted:

1.  **Available Time (hours)** — time at work
    
2.  [**Leave hours**](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/7120796-what-is-leave.md) — time off (holiday, sick, etc.)
    
3.  [**Output (hours)**](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/10222974-the-output-report.md) — the total hours of [Production Tasks](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6930805-what-is-a-production-task.md) completed/planned to be completed
    
4.  [**Supporting hours**](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6963801-what-are-supporting-tasks.md) — time spent on internal or non-production work
    
5.  [**Contribution**](https://support.brmbl.io/en/articles/6965420-what-is-contribution.md) — the share of your working time that went into output work
    

For each of the five items above, Bramble asks:

_"How far off was the actual from the plan?"_

Bramble then take the average of those five differences.

That average is your Planning Accuracy score.

## A quick example

Let’s say your team plan was for 40 hours of Output, but the team actually completed 44 hours. The difference for this specific metric (plan v actual) is:  

Difference = (44 − 40) ÷ 40 = +10%

  
If the difference for the other four items came out at 0%, +5%, −5% and 0%, your Planning Accuracy would be the average:

  
Planning Variance = (10 + 0 + 5 − 5 + 0) ÷ 5 = +2%

## What is a ‘good’ Planning Accuracy result?

The result is shown as a percentage, and the sign matters:

-   0% — spot on, your plan matched reality
    
-   A positive number (e.g. +15%) — you did more than you planned
    
-   A negative number (e.g. −10%) — you did less than you planned
    

The closer to 0%, the more accurate your planning was.

Some points to remember:

-   If you planned nothing for an item and did nothing, that counts as a perfect match (0%).
    
-   If you planned nothing but did some, it counts as 100% over.
    
-   If you planned some but did none, it counts as 100% under.
    
-   Each of the five items carries equal weight, regardless of how many hours were involved.
    
-   The score covers the date range selected on your Hub (this week by default).