For my flounder mode crew #floundermode here's how I measure the company's workload Level 1: people are idle Level 2: product dev is at full pace Level 3: operational needs are clobbering product dev Level 4: operational needs are clobbering operational needs
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Level 1 means I'm managing poorly Level 2 is where we want to be Level 3 is okay so long as it doesn't happen for a long time Level 4 is very bad and was previously only theorized