Alternate ways to view time invested across different areas
Uplevel's Time Allocation report offers a high level view of how teams are spending their time spread across various initiatives and projects.
This view offers several alternate ways of reporting time spent in each area.
A comparison of the different ways to think about time spent:
- Allocation %: What fraction of this group's time is spent on each area?
These % values sum to 100%.
Allocation % =
(Dev Weeks invested in this area) /
(Number of contributors * Number of weeks) - FTE #: How many "full time equivalent" people are focused on each area?
A person who spends half their time on an area counts as 0.5FTE. These FTE values sum to the number of people in the segment.
FTE # =
(Dev weeks invested in this area) /
(Number of weeks) - Dev Weeks: How many person-weeks of time was spent on each area, over the selected timeframe?
Dev weeks acts as a rough proxy for "cost". As the number of people, or the number of overall weeks being invested goes up, so does Dev weeks.
A person who spends half their time on an area for 1 week contributes 0.5 Dev Weeks. If they spend half their time for 10 weeks during the selected timeframe, this would contribute 5.0 Dev Weeks. These Dev Week values sum to the number of people in the segment times the number of weeks in the timeframe.
Note: contributors are presumed to be salaried, and so if an individual works overtime, they are still only counted as investing 1 Dev Week of work per calendar week. An individual who works 20h on project A, 20h on project B, and another 20h on project C within a 1 week span, would be considered to have invested 0.33 Dev Weeks in each project.Dev Weeks =
Sum of each contributor:
(Fraction of time invested in this area) *
(Number of weeks) - Cost $: This is an optional way to estimate the costs invested in each area over the selected timeframe.
This is calculated by multiplying the Dev Weeks invested by each contributor, times their approximate weekly cost.
To enable the Cost $ option and configure estimated salary bands for use in this calculation, contact support@uplevelteam.com.
Cost $ =
Sum of each contributor:
(Dev Weeks invested in this area) *
(Approximate weekly salary)