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Team members who are part-time on your project will see at least a 15% reduction in their productivity per hour. The type of resource model in Agile is called:

The correct answer is B. Fractional assignments. Fractional assignments describe team members who split their time across multiple projects rather than being dedicated full-time to one. Research and Agile practice confirm that context switching between projects significantly reduces productivity - the 15% per-hour reduction…

Submitted by marco_it· Apr 18, 2026Team Performance

Question

Team members who are part-time on your project will see at least a 15% reduction in their productivity per hour. The type of resource model in Agile is called:

Options

  • ACollocated
  • BFractional assignments
  • CDistributed resources
  • DOver-allocated resources

How the community answered

(50 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    94% (47)
  • D
    4% (2)

Explanation

Fractional assignments describe team members who split their time across multiple projects rather than being dedicated full-time to one. Research and Agile practice confirm that context switching between projects significantly reduces productivity - the 15% per-hour reduction figure is cited in Agile literature. This contrasts with collocated (physical proximity), distributed (geographic spread), or over-allocated (more work than capacity) resource models.

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#Fractional Assignments#Resource Management#Team Productivity#Context Switching

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