{"id":4541,"date":"2018-04-25T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T07:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2018-04-10T07:22:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T01:52:52","slug":"littles-law-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/littles-law-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Little&#8217;s Law | Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Definition<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little\u2019s Law states that in possession of a stable system, the average number of customers within it, is equal to the average rate of consumer arrivals multiplied by the average time a consumer usually spends in the overall system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little\u2019s Law is expressed as L= \u03bbW.With \u2018L\u2019 as the average number of customers, \u2018\u03bb\u2019 being the average arrival rate, and \u2018W\u2019 being the average time in the system. This law got it\u2019s name on John Littel, who proposed it in the mid-1990s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Further Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;Building Intuition: Insights From Basic Operations Management Models and Principles\u201d (book), by John D.C Little.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definition Little\u2019s Law states that in possession of a stable system, the average number of customers within it, is equal to the average rate of consumer arrivals multiplied by the average time a consumer usually spends in the overall system. Little\u2019s Law is expressed as L= \u03bbW.With \u2018L\u2019 as the average number of customers, \u2018\u03bb\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4575,"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":[17,105,18,791],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glossary","tag-agile","tag-glossary","tag-innoroo","tag-little-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Littles-Law.png?fit=3125%2C1709&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Rui8-1bf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4542,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions\/4542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innoroo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}