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Relaxed…..

March 15th, 2008 |

An unforgiving week at work comes to an end! The quality of work done was at its worst. Even productivity seemed low. To compensate for that I had to put in the extra time. So somehow I managed to do a greater quantity of work at the cost of quality. quality*quantity = constant! I can’t help that.

Looking to catch up with friends and relax before the new week begins.

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8 comments ↓

#1 Nishith Prabhakar on 03.19.08 at 9:10 pm

quality*quantity = constant … nice one :)

#2 Amit on 03.21.08 at 12:20 pm

To be more accurate,

Quality * Quantity = Constant (For a given amount of time) :-)

#3 Deepesh on 03.21.08 at 8:58 pm

for a given person; a tad too obvious but doesn’t hurt clarifying, does it :-)

#4 Amit on 03.21.08 at 10:11 pm

Ah! Thats every bit as important as the other parameters in the equation.

#5 Deepesh on 03.25.08 at 9:10 pm

Thinking further on your equation, there will be people who can exhibit -ve constant for some value of t and some quantity of work for given t.

So, going into details, let me rephrase the parts of the equation to suit my comment.

Quality (QLY) * Quantity (QTY) = Constant (V)

Quantity = work expected in a given time t
Constant = Total amount of value produced by a person in given time t

The situation becomes a little difficult when V goes negative!

For some folks, in a given situation the V may be negative. That is the amount of value added to system is less than the damage done to it.

But then, if the expected amount of work (QTY) for a given time t is less for them, the constant may become positive.

=> V is a function of t and QTY. so, it becomes;

V = F(t, QTY)

so QTY actually might bring V down. V INV proportional to QTY (or QTY squared or something similar)

I would recommend a more complex model to handle this but at this point I think I am lost, so I would leave it to mathematcians like Abhinav (he sounds like one from his blogs) to come up with a model to fit ;-) . Hows that for delegation!

And a passing note, if all of this can be worked out using Function points (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_points) as a unit, who knows you might end up creating a productivity model for your team!

#6 Deepesh on 03.25.08 at 9:15 pm

I just realized my comment is bigger than the post :-) . I wasn’t so serious about it and before i realized it became bigger (and may be incoherent-er). Anyways, before this one goes off the hook, i am signing off :-)

#7 Amit on 03.29.08 at 11:10 am

Nice analysis DY. I am planning to comprehend and recompile all this and put it in a main post!

#8 The Obligatory Break! — iLog on 05.01.08 at 9:36 am

[...] Let me carry on from where I left: Relaxed…. [...]

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