{"id":1939,"date":"2021-04-12T20:25:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2021-04-12T20:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:25:45","slug":"measuring-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/2021\/04\/12\/measuring-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"hgKElc\"><b>Utilization<\/b> is defined as the amount of an <b>employee&#8217;s<\/b> available time that&#8217;s used for productive, billable work, expressed as a percentage. An <b>employee&#8217;s utilization<\/b> rate is a critical metric for organizations to track.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Source: Google)<\/p>\n<p>Queue Theory in math tells us that as utilization approaches 100%, lead times approach infinity. [Lead Time is &#8222;how fast work can be completed&#8220;]<\/p>\n<p>(Source:\u00a0 Accelerate by Forsgren, Humble, Kim, et al. 2018)<\/p>\n<p>So, be a good employee and ring the bell soon enough and take some slack time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utilization is defined as the amount of an employee&#8217;s available time that&#8217;s used for productive, billable work, expressed as a percentage. An employee&#8217;s utilization rate is a critical metric for organizations to track. (Source: Google) Queue Theory in math tells us that as utilization approaches 100%, lead times approach infinity. [Lead Time is &#8222;how fast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jan.schnasse.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}