Updated terms to clarify what's being measured
Uplevel’s Time Allocation view shows how time is allocated across various initiatives, projects, or other custom groupings. Time Allocation is calculated by looking at the available time in the week, removing Meetings, Interruptions, and time Out-of-Office, and allocating the remaining work time across the Initiatives* that individuals are working on.
Previously, there were three different areas where unmapped work could be found. Many users found this confusing, so in this release, the arrangement and labels for “Uncategorized Dev Time” and “Not linked to…” categories are being updated to clarify what they are measuring. The calculations and data in each category are unchanged.
*Note: the Time Allocation view can be pivoted to show how time is allocated by Initiative, Project, Epic, Work Type, or other custom project fields. The examples shown here represent the team’s time allocation by “Initiative”.
New time allocation labels:
- “No Issue or PR activity” replaces “Unknown Dev Time” to clarify language.
- This represents the time where Uplevel does not have a clear indication of what Initiative an individual worked on on a particular day. This can be because there was no PR activity this day, and no open Jira issue currently assigned to the individual (or the Jira issues assigned to the individual appear out of date, with no recent activity in the last 7 days).
- A new high level category “Not allocated to an Initiative” replaces previous categories “Uncategorized Dev Time” and “Not linked to X” and rolls up various sub-categories of time that could not be explicitly tied to an Initiative:
- “No Issue or PR activity”: explained above.
- “PR not linked to an Issue”: the individual worked on a PR on this day, but it was not linked to an Issue.
- “Issues not in an Epic”: the issue the individual worked on was not in an Epic, and so couldn’t be linked to an Initiative.
- “Epic X, Y, Z”: the issue the individual worked on was in an Epic, but the Epic was not linked to an Initiative.
- “Meetings/Interruptions”
- This high level category captures time spent in meetings or interruptions.
- “Out-of-Office” is no longer included in this category, and is split out into it’s own top level category because it is helpful to think of this time separately.
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