As an IT manager, you must decide how to allocate programmers between "support"—that is, doing bug fixes and responding to production issues-and the development of new features and systems. Both tasks are measured in completed "tickets," and for each activity, the weekly average product, total product, and marginal product are given in the accompanying table. Ticket completions of both types are equally valued by your company. Your programmers work in teams of 10. Currently you allocate two teams (20 programmers) to support and three teams (30 programmers) to development. How should you reallocate your teams, if at all, to achieve the maximum number of competed tickets per week? Number of teams AP Support TP Development MP AP TP MP 0 0 0 0 0 1 40 40 40 45 45 45 2 40 80 40 43 86 41 3 40 120 40 41 123 37 4 40 160 40 39 156 33 5 40 200 40 37 185 29 Development: team(s) Support: 3 team(s)
As an IT manager, you must decide how to allocate programmers between "support"—that is, doing bug fixes and responding to production issues-and the development of new features and systems. Both tasks are measured in completed "tickets," and for each activity, the weekly average product, total product, and marginal product are given in the accompanying table. Ticket completions of both types are equally valued by your company. Your programmers work in teams of 10. Currently you allocate two teams (20 programmers) to support and three teams (30 programmers) to development. How should you reallocate your teams, if at all, to achieve the maximum number of competed tickets per week? Number of teams AP Support TP Development MP AP TP MP 0 0 0 0 0 1 40 40 40 45 45 45 2 40 80 40 43 86 41 3 40 120 40 41 123 37 4 40 160 40 39 156 33 5 40 200 40 37 185 29 Development: team(s) Support: 3 team(s)
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