Resourcing · The resource estimate · Element
The effort
How much work it takes, in people-weeks.
The part
What it is
Working weeks rather than calendar weeks. The two differ by roughly a third once holidays, meetings and other commitments are counted.
Recording confidence alongside the estimate is what distinguishes a considered figure from a guess with a decimal point.
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 capability
Which specific skills the work needs.
LearnThe cost
What it costs in money, including anything external.
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