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Engineering Investment

Metrics showing effort allocation and financial investment, including development costs, hosting, and incidents. Customizable by requirement.

Deanna Smith
Updated by Deanna Smith

Insights into where your effort is going

Connect your engineering systems to TargetBoard to enable the metrics shown below for your organization. To fully enable CAPEX and other financial data or estimates, additional data will be required. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to discuss in detail.

Note that the metrics list provided below is demonstrative only, and that custom metrics, calculations and data points are created based on individual customer requirements.


Financial Investment

Capitalization FTEs

Summary of Full Time Equivalent effort in months of salary for all dev-items closed during the reporting period, both capitalized and not capitalized (filterable).

Capitalization Cost

Total development cost for all dev-items closed during the reporting period, based on employee salary and FTE effort.

Development Cost

Total development cost, based on employee salary and FTE effort, for all dev-items completed up to the end of the report period. Useful for understanding the overall investment in a project, initiative, or epic.

Hosting Cost

Total monthly hosting cost of AWS resources for billing cycles taking place during the reporting period.

Post Mortem - Avg Incident Cost

Average financial cost of incidents detected during the reporting period.

Post Mortem - Total Incident Cost

Total financial cost of incidents detected during the reporting period.

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