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Utilization planning: time equivalency to estimation values

Chase Southard requested to merge utilization_estimation_time into master

Why is this change being made?

In an effort to better understand our planning and estimation processes. I wonder if we can also make an estimation on the amount of time a more heavily weighted estimation value might take. Our average weight over the last 115 closed issues is 1.8

This MR proposes some loose equivalency between a weight of 5 generically and 5-10 days to complete.

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Edited by Chase Southard

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