quantify-toil

name	quantify-toil
description	Quantify manual toil and the automation ROI in engineer-hours per year. Reach for this on an automate-or-not question.

Skill: Quantify toil

Every recurring ticket is platform debt with a measurable cost (§3 #4).

Step 1 — Inventory the task

Manual minutes per occurrence, frequency, and engineers affected.

Step 2 — Compute hours/yr

minutes × frequency × engineers ÷ 60 via platform_engineering_idp_calc.py toil (§3 #4).

Step 3 — Compare to build cost

Hours/yr saved vs the build-and-maintain cost of the self-service action.

Step 4 — Rank against adoption

Prioritize toil on high-adoption paths, not rare edge cases (§3 #7).

Output

A toil ROI read in engineer-hours/yr with the build-vs-buy-vs-leave call.