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Allocation is measured in full-time engineers/employees (FTEs). FTE’s is a calculation of the ratio of time spent on a given piece of work in a day multiplied by the average daily salary for engineers at your company. Each action taken on various pieces of work influences the ratio for each day. Our model is most accurate when your team’s work is performed in a tracking system like Git or Jira.
TL;DR
Allstacks looks at all commit and card activity in connected tools to determine how each individual is spending their time over the course of each workday. This is done by measuring the time between each action. If Action A is performed at 1pm, and Action B is performed at 2pm, Action B will receive an hour of credit.
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Q: What happens if a contributor goes on vacation? Is there a maximum amount of time that Allstacks will attribute to their first action when they get back?
A: Currently, a contributor will get Allstacks only gives credit for all the business days between their last action and their next action. In the future, we plan to have a maximum amount of credit that can be attributed to an action, and allow that max credit to be configured by the customer, so these situations don’t skew the datadays where we detect actions from a contributor. When a user stops work for the day, the clock stops and doesn't resume until they start making actions again on a future date.