{"id":8770,"date":"2019-02-13T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/?p=8770"},"modified":"2019-02-05T22:38:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T17:08:28","slug":"littles-law-glossary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/13\/littles-law-glossary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Little&#8217;s law | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Definition: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, Little&#8217;s result, theorem, lemma, law, or formula is a theorem by John Little which states that the long-term average number <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of customers in a stationary system is equal to the long-term average effective arrival rate <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u03bb<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> multiplied by the average time <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">W <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that a customer spends in the system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Further Reading: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Book:<\/b> <b>kanban Maturity Model by Teodora Bozheva<\/b><b>, David J. Anderson<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition: In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, Little&#8217;s result, theorem, lemma, law, or formula is a theorem by John Little which states that the long-term average number L of customers in a stationary system is equal to the long-term average effective arrival rate \u03bb multiplied by the average time W [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102],"tags":[7,105,868,1995,1987],"class_list":["post-8770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glossary","tag-david-j-anderson","tag-glossary","tag-kanban-maturity-model","tag-littles-law","tag-teodora-bozheva"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Littles-Law.png?fit=750%2C410","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-2hs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8772,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions\/8772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}