Resourcing · The resource estimate · Element
The capability
Which specific skills the work needs.
The part
What it is
Effort in the abstract is misleading. Six weeks of work that only one person in the organisation can do is a different proposition from six weeks anyone could do.
Naming the capability is what reveals whether the constraint is capacity or scarcity.
The smallest level
The attributes it carries
Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.
The other elements in the resource estimate
The effort
How much work it takes, in people-weeks.
LearnThe cost
What it costs in money, including anything external.
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