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  • 1.  What is the timeframe & more for the Project FTE count?

    Posted May 18, 2016 09:52 AM
    It has been hard for me to find out more about the "Project FTE" count found in Reports > Insights that is associated with some of the aspects of the Insights report. I have three (3) questions...

    1) How often does the Project FTE count get updated?
    2) What is the timeframe for the Project FTE count? Based on my research and experimentation within Rally, it seems to never really update. For example, one team member has not doen any work connected to a team since November 2015 yet they are still shown as 1.00 (100%) in the Project FTE count.
    3) Are there any ways to clean up the Project FTE count when a team member is no longer on the team? Since this count is directly tied to our Insights reports, it would be helpful to make it truthful.

    Thanks for any help that anybody can provide as I find that information related to Project FTE count to be non-transparent and hard to discover.


  • 2.  Re: What is the timeframe & more for the Project FTE count?

    Posted May 18, 2016 01:26 PM
    This might help?
    https://help.rallydev.com/insights-performance-index-calculation#real

    Full-Time Equivalent
    This measurement is an indicator of team size including contributions from part-time contributors to the team.
    Type: Decision
    Formula
    Find all transactions (snapshots) for stories, defects, and tasks that are in progress, have no children, have an owner (user), and are not blocked.
    Sum all transactions by user U total , project P total , and user contribution to a project Uproject  where Utotal > 5 (for example, users with a total transaction count less than or equal to five are not counted towards U project  or P total ). If the revision editor and owner are different people, the edit is associated to both people.
    Find the fraction of a user’s total work each project represents: 
    Sum the full-time equivalent for each project: P fte = Σ U fte .
    Team Stability
    This is an indication of the team's stability. For example, given:
    Month n:
    George: 90% dedicated 
    Joe: 50% 
    Jen: 80%
    Month n + 1:
    George: 75% (-15% delta) 
    Jen: 100% (+20%) 
    Jeff: 25% (new) (+25%) 
    Joe: missing (-50%)
    The TeamGrowth metric for the team would be .2 + .25 = .45 divided by the current team size (2) or 22.5%.
    The TeamShrinkage metric for the team would be |-.15| + |-.5| = .65 divided by the old team size (2.2) or 29.54%.
    The total volatility would be the sum of the two prior metrics or roughly 52% and Team Stability would be 100 - 52/2 = 74.

    I'd suggest contacting CA AC Support for a better answer.

     


  • 3.  Re: What is the timeframe & more for the Project FTE count?

    Posted May 18, 2016 02:12 PM
    Thankyou  Seshadri... However, I have already read this and it doesn't answer my question.