Check the interval log
Owner role · Task owner
Evidence: Both start/end pairs use one day and timezone; ends follow starts.
Work measurement / Team leads and delivery coordinators
Drafting workbenchBlocked time: avoid double-counting overlapping waits
Calculate the union of blocked intervals before reporting total waiting time. Preserve each cause without adding overlapping hours twice.
Separate elapsed blocked time from the number of concurrent causes; this ledger resolves overlap arithmetic rather than retry decisions.
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Prepare a brief for human review
Drafting workbenchSynthetic example: A missing input blocks work from hour 10 to 14. A permission issue also blocks it from 12 to 15 on the same day.
Merge overlapping coverage
Owner role · Coordinator
Evidence: The union is [10,15), five hours, with both cause labels preserved.
Confirm each recorded end
Owner role · Receiving owners
Evidence: Each cause owner confirms its recorded end condition and retains the evidence for the retrospective log.
Decision to make: Report five elapsed blocked hours, while preserving two blocking causes and their receiving owners.
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Worked reporting note
Invented planning text. Adapt it to your evidence and confirmed owners.
Blocked coverage: five elapsed hours. Missing-input and permission causes remain separately owned records.
Put the outline to work
- Write blocking starts and ends as half-open intervals.
- Sort and merge overlapping intervals before adding lengths.
- Retain causes and owners separately from the elapsed total.
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Invented records · inspect every count
| Cause or union | Start hour | End hour | Elapsed hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missing input | 10 | 14 | 4 |
| Permission issue | 12 | 15 | 3 |
| Merged coverage | 10 | 15 | 5 |
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Work through the rule
Individual lengths are 4 and 3; overlap is 2. Union = 4 + 3 − 2 = 5 elapsed hours, not 7.
Blocked coverage: five elapsed hours. Missing-input and permission causes remain separately owned records.
Keep evidence and inference separate
Observed
Two closed intervals on one clock
Supports their five-hour union.
Unknown
Active effort or financial impact
Do not multiply the coverage into a cost claim.
Next check
Confirm the end condition with each receiving owner
Do not close a cause because a different cause cleared.
Questions about this workflow
Why not add four and three hours?
The two intervals overlap for two hours. Adding their lengths would count that period twice.
What does half-open mean here?
Include the start and stop at the end; touching intervals do not create extra duration.
What if both causes have different owners?
Keep both cause records. Merging time coverage does not merge responsibility.
Does this create tasks in the product?
No. The brief is a manual planning resource. Use the product access link to check onboarding and the workflows available in your account.