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WorkGraph · Engineering effort allocation

Find the bottlenecks
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WorkGraph uses metadata from connected engineering tools to estimate how each team’s effort is distributed. See work patterns across development, reviews, meetings, and operational work, then identify bottlenecks to investigate.

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The problem

The biggest productivity drains don’t show up on any dashboard.

Process overhead creeps up silently. Incidents spill into sprint work. Together, they’re the reason your best engineers feel stuck and the reason quarterly output keeps slipping despite everyone working harder.

WorkGraph makes these patterns visible and actionable.

Effort allocation

Example · Last week · Platform Team

Spike detected

Incident response consumed 32% of Platform Team’s time last week.

32%

production incidents, Platform Team

26%

production incidents, all of engineering

24%

product development, Platform Team

Where the week went% of the team capacity%
Production Incidents32%
Product Development24%
Collaboration18%
Code Quality12%
Engineering Design9%
Admin3%
Deployments & Ops2%

Shares estimate captured attention for Platform Team last week, across seven categories. The organization comparison uses the same week and connected sources.

The solution

Engineering work, understood at the right level of detail.

WorkGraph classifies captured engineering activity into seven core categories. Granular enough to spot the real problems. Clear enough to act on them.

Actual observed work, not just surveys.

Beyond the standard view

Your dashboards show output. Productivity blockers show why it’s slipping.

The work that slows your team rarely gets measured. These metrics measure it:

Toil Detection

Surfaces repetitive process work that quietly consumes capacity and is never counted.

Top toil categories

Ticket triage42%
Access requests28%
Manual deploys18%
Backlog grooming12%

Share of the time classified as toil, by the intent behind it.

AI Flow Impact

Shows whether AI tools are improving delivery or just moving the bottleneck downstream.

Engineering week composition

Before AI

After AI

Coding Review Meetings Other

Review grew from 20% to 34% of the week after AI coding tools arrived. Coding shrank 3 points.

Fragmentation Index

Measures real predictors of output quality: context switches, interruption frequency, and uninterrupted blocks.

Interruptions per day

20 15 10 5 0 12 interruptions +10% vs previous

Interruptions per day. The highlighted day had 12, up 10% on the day before.

Developer Intelligence

Three layers · One team · One week

Shipping Velocity, quality, cost, delivery confidenceWhat got out the door, and how fast. What
Sentiment DX surveys, pulse checks, friction themesHow the team says the week felt. Why
WorkGraph How work actually happensWhere the hours went, by category, and which categories were never planned. How

Each layer answers one question about the same team over the same week, so a change in one can be read against the other two.

Part of 360° Developer Intelligence

WorkGraph completes the picture.

Shipping metrics tell you what. Sentiment tells you why. WorkGraph tells you how and where to act.

Shipping and sentiment are already in Developer Intelligence. WorkGraph adds the third layer, so a slower quarter or a sharper survey comes with the categories that explain it, for the same team and the same weeks.

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Built for privacy

Team patterns, never individual surveillance.

WorkGraph reports on teams, not people. It reads metadata only, and only from the apps an admin has connected. Message bodies, document contents and code stay where they are.

Always team-level roll-ups · categories are computed per team and per week; there is no per-person view of where the hours went
Metadata only · timestamps, identifiers, participants and sizes. The content of a message, a document or a diff is never collected
Admin-configured apps only · an admin chooses which apps WorkGraph reads. Anything not connected is never touched

Privacy and security

Admin settings · WorkGraph

Team-level roll-upsEvery category is computed per team and per week. There is no per-person view of where the hours went. Always on
Metadata onlyTimestamps, identifiers, participants and sizes. Content is never read, stored or sent to a model. Enforced
Admin-configured apps onlyWorkGraph reads the apps an admin connects, nothing else. Disconnecting an app stops collection immediately. Admin controlled

Collected

Timestamps and durations

Ticket, PR and event identifiers

Participants and team membership

Sizes: files touched, attendee count

Never collected

Message bodies

Document contents

Screen recording

Keystrokes

SOC 2 Type IIGDPRSSO & SCIMRole-based accessAudit log

Managers see their own teams, admins see the organization. The same role-based access as the rest of Larridin.

A closer look

How WorkGraph estimates engineering effort

WorkGraph groups captured activity into categories and shows each category’s share of captured attention. This is an estimate of observed work, not a time sheet of every working hour.

Captured activity

Connected sources provide the activity available for analysis. Unconnected tools, offline work, and gaps in capture limit the picture.

Overlap handling

Overlapping activity is reconciled before rollups. Some durations are estimated, so interpret the result as a directional view of captured effort.

Team interpretation

Compare the same teams, categories, and source coverage over time. Investigate a change with the team before attributing it to a bottleneck or an individual.

Questions about WorkGraph

Does WorkGraph track individual working hours?

WorkGraph’s effort-allocation view reports team-level patterns. It does not present an individual time sheet or per-person breakdown of where hours went.

Do the percentages represent the entire working week?

They represent the share of captured attention assigned to each category. Coverage depends on connected sources and observed activity. Offline or unobserved work is not automatically represented.

How is effort allocation different from Engineering Output?

Effort allocation describes how captured activity is distributed. Engineering Output scores eligible merged work. Reading them together helps investigate whether changes in work patterns accompany changes in delivery.

How should I interpret the product examples?

The product views on this page use illustrative data to explain the metrics and workflows. For metric definitions, sample calculations, and assumptions, see our measurement methodology.

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