What is the most effective way to measure the utilization of a development team?

Software Development Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)Availability & Capacity Management+3 more

Timesheeting8%

Work completed65%

Work in progress20%

Feature backlog5%

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IT Manager in Construction5 months ago

I believe you need 2 variable where 1 is the time.

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What does internal software development QA look like in your organization and is it successful? Embedded, federated, centralized, etc..?

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Decrease6%

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