Resourcing · The resource estimate · Element
The cost
What it costs in money, including anything external.
The part
What it is
External costs are often the smaller number and the harder one to reverse, because they involve a contract.
Separating internal effort from external spend is what makes the two decisions independent.
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 capability
Which specific skills the work needs.
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