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card_b = ($236.8 + $1.6) = $238.4
How Allocation can be
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Useful
Allocation shows information in terms all stakeholders can understand
Stakeholders don’t always know how many card actions or commits per day to expect. However, often they do know how much they’ve budgeted for things, and how many working hours they’re expecting to get out of their teams.
Allocation normalizes data across teams that work very differently
Metrics such as velocity, commits, and PRs skew toward teams that do smaller increments more frequently. Just because a team does twice as many tickets doesn’t mean a team does twice as much work. Allocation smooths this out so teams can be compared to one another or aggregated together more effectively
Allocation can be a zero-effort replacement for time tracking
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