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Example Calc's for 'F' at HVAC in a Hurry
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These calculations support a blog post, which you can find here:
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THE ONE METRIC FOR INNOVATION ACCOUNTING (AND HOW TO USE IT)
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Cost to Release a Successful Feature: F
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Cost/Successful Story Point in March$3,851This is a measurement just for the month of March- per story point
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Team Cost: c_$Team Cost: g
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Average Comp.$132,000annual, blended across team of ten: 7 dev's, 1 designer, 1 test engineer, 1 embedded SRE (DevOps)GCP$2,100this is low now because of early release; includes dev and test instances
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Team Size10Firebase$200
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Loading 30%for benefits, taxes, individuals' IT equipment (computer, etc.)CI System$350for benefits, taxes, individuals' IT equipment (computer, etc.)
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Misc. Subscriptions$700
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TEAM COST: c$$143,000/monthTEAM COST: g$3,350/month
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Release Content: f_e & r_f
Portion of Successful Features s_d
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r_f18%Estimate of dev. time spent on bug fixes and unplanned test and deploy workActual Story Points (Mar.)84This is all our story points for March
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actual story points84This is all our story points for MarchSucessful Features, Post Testing38These are the story points for the features where our target DV exceeded our 'line in the sand'
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'true' f_e102.4f_e with an rf of 0%: Velocity with perfect pipeline; just for comparison purposes- not in calc.PORTION SUCCESSFUL45.24%
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RELEASE CONTENT84story points/month
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COST/STORY POINT$1,742cost/story point/month
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copyright COWAN+
Value for 'F' Varying c_$ and s_d
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Average Team Comp. (Unloaded)
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$102,000$112,000$122,000$132,000$142,000$152,000$162,000
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Portion Successful10.2%$13,236$14,495$15,755$17,014$18,274$19,533$20,793
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15.2%$8,893$9,740$10,586$11,432$12,278$13,125$13,971
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20.2%$6,696$7,334$7,971$8,608$9,245$9,882$10,520
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25.2%$5,370$5,881$6,392$6,903$7,414$7,925$8,436
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30.2%$4,482$4,908$5,335$5,761$6,188$6,614$7,041
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35.2%$3,846$4,212$4,578$4,944$5,310$5,676$6,042
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40.2%$3,368$3,689$4,009$4,330$4,650$4,971$5,291
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45.2%$2,996$3,281$3,566$3,851$4,136$4,421$4,706
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50.2%$2,698$2,954$3,211$3,468$3,725$3,981$4,238
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55.2%$2,454$2,687$2,921$3,154$3,387$3,621$3,854
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60.2%$2,250$2,464$2,678$2,892$3,106$3,320$3,534
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