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.
To be more accurate,
Quality * Quantity = Constant (For a given amount of time) 🙂
Ah! Thats every bit as important as the other parameters in the equation.
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!
Nice analysis DY. I am planning to comprehend and recompile all this and put it in a main post!
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