Glossary

Investment allocation

How engineering time splits between new features, maintenance, bugs, and unplanned work. The split is usually inferred from tickets and commits, so a messy tracker produces a tidy chart that is still messy.

Why it matters to an engineering manager

Finance and executives ask for this more often than they ask for DORA. The categories are only as good as the ticket hygiene underneath them.

Which tools measure this

Tools tagged Investment allocation. A tag means the vendor's pages listed it. It does not mean every sub-metric is broken out.

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