Tactical goals · Resourcing · Component
The capacity check
What the named owner and team are already carrying, and what this displaces.
The deliverable
What it is
This is the step most often skipped, and the one that most reliably explains why a well-formed plan produced nothing.
A new goal for someone already at capacity is a decision to drop something else, whether or not that is said out loud. The check is what says it out loud.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The existing load
What the owner and team already have committed.
2 attributes: Current commitments · Committed
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A team planned to a hundred per cent will absorb the unexpected by quietly dropping the planned. Headroom is what makes that visible.
The other components in resourcing
The resource estimate
People-weeks, money and any external dependency, stated before commitment.
LearnThe funding decision
A recorded yes or no, with the trade-off it implied. Leaving a goal on the list unfunded is the third option and the worst.
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