If you do agile planning, you probably use the "yesterday's weather" metaphor of Extreme Programming: your team collects the backlog of stories or features, sorts them by priority, and estimates them -- let's say, using story points. Then you take the "velocity" -- the sum of story points finished during the last iteration(s).
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