“Yes, and Rudy is really very good at it,” Jonas observed. “Our last supervisor that controlled our inventory ramp-up at year end always sent his crew into overtime pay to catch up when he got behind. Rudy recalculates the ramp-up schedule when we hit those little sales spikes, so he recovers over a period of 2-3 weeks instead of 2-3 days. It’s our off season so these spikes rarely put our inventory levels in danger.”

“So, we have identified that Rudy’s longest Time Span task is nine months, and you believe that he is successful at that Time Span?” I asked.

“Oh, yeah. It’s not just me, you can talk to almost anyone, his manager, his MOR (Manager Once Removed), in fact, you can talk to Rudy, and just by listening to him describe what he does, you can tell he has things firmly under control.”

“Jonas, this may sound like casual observations about Rudy, but here is what we have established about his current role. The longest Time Span task in his role is nine months and his effectiveness in that role has been judged as positive by multiple people (multiple data points). This is not casual conversation, this is calculated measurement of Rudy’s performance.” –TF