Time

Time is one of the three pillars of value in TRM. A fuller write-up is still to come. Until then, here is what the rest of this section says about it.

• Measure it one way. In an analysis, put every time value in the same unit, for example hours per year. See Create your first TRM analysis.
• Give it context. When my teams reported time saved, we showed it as a share of a full-time employee, not in hours. There are over two thousand working hours in a year per person, so an hours figure sounds big but doesn’t tell the company what it got. See the Platform Engineering/IT case study.
• It hides in other values. Entertainment and design both come down to time. See Rethinking value in TRM terms.