Actor Activity Consistency Score(4.5.10)

Some people record activity at a steady weekly pace; others have busy weeks followed by quiet ones. This visual measures that rhythm for each actor with the coefficient of variation (CV), the standard deviation of the actor's weekly event count divided by its mean. A low CV means a steady weekly count and a high CV a burst-and-idle pattern. Neither is good or bad in itself: project-based, on-call and review work is naturally bursty, and the measure says nothing about the quality or amount of anyone's work.

The four levels

MetaFrazo rates each actor on four levels of CV. They are names for ranges of this measurement, not assessments of a person:

• Highly consistent: a CV under 20%.
• Consistent: a CV from 20% up to 40%.
• Moderate: a CV from 40% up to 60%.
• Irregular: a CV of 60% or more.

What the table shows

The table lists each actor once, up to fifteen, the most variable first, with actors who could not be rated after them. Their mean weekly event count, CV and rating come from their weekly totals across all of their projects, over every complete week in which they recorded activity, not only the weeks in the selected date range; the date range decides which actors and weeks appear. With a project selected, the table shows each actor's figures within that project. An actor with only one complete week of recorded activity has no measurable variation: their CV and rating are blank, not zero.

Questions this can help answer

• Is the team's activity spread evenly across weeks, or concentrated in bursts?
• Does an actor's rhythm within one project differ from their rhythm across all of their work?
• Where steady delivery work shows a burst-and-idle pattern, what happened to dependencies, reviews or priorities in the quiet weeks?

How this chart works

Multi-line chart of the weekly event count of the eight most active actors, summed across their projects, with the consistency table below it. Accounts Jira reports as apps (such as Automation for Jira) or as service-desk customers are left out of the chart and the table; an account Jira returned no type for stays in, labeled unknown, and is never counted as a person. Use the date, project, and actor filters to focus on specific teams.

The variation figure and the consistency rating cover complete weeks only. The line still plots the week in progress at its count so far, so its last point covers only what has been recorded up to now and can only grow as the week closes.