Good Afternoon,
I am a novice user of statistics and have a question regarding an approach to a problem I have. I manage a small group in an R&D environment. We are assigned "tasks" which are independent of each other, are generally related, but do not require the same amount of time/effort to complete, i.e. some tasks are harder than others. I have access to monthly, weekly, yearly data for times, specific tasks or the tasks as a whole, etc. What I would like to do is analyze whether we are getting better at accomplishing tasks or not. I tried to apply a rudimentary z-score month over month on hours per task ratio. However, when thinking about it, I am really trying to normalize and compare the means for each month rather than the hours per task for a specific task month over month. Is this even possible? Many of my colleges say because the tasks are differing difficulty there is no way to compare tasks month over month. Please let me know how to solve this problem.
I am a novice user of statistics and have a question regarding an approach to a problem I have. I manage a small group in an R&D environment. We are assigned "tasks" which are independent of each other, are generally related, but do not require the same amount of time/effort to complete, i.e. some tasks are harder than others. I have access to monthly, weekly, yearly data for times, specific tasks or the tasks as a whole, etc. What I would like to do is analyze whether we are getting better at accomplishing tasks or not. I tried to apply a rudimentary z-score month over month on hours per task ratio. However, when thinking about it, I am really trying to normalize and compare the means for each month rather than the hours per task for a specific task month over month. Is this even possible? Many of my colleges say because the tasks are differing difficulty there is no way to compare tasks month over month. Please let me know how to solve this problem.
