📖What it means

The estimated sum of tokens needed to complete a unit of work: an activity, a task, an action, an attempt, an initiative, an arc or a pursuit. It is an estimate, so it is entered by the one who sizes the work (Elrond, for an initiative attempt), never read back from the ledger. A larger unit's effort is the sum of the efforts of what it is made of: an initiative's from its attempts, an arc's or a pursuit's from its initiatives. A unit with no estimate is UNESTIMATED, never zero.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Tokens (measured)", "distinction": "Measured tokens are what a call actually consumed, read from the ledger after the fact. Effort is the estimate made before or during the work of what it will take; the two are never summed together or shown in the same style."}, {"term": "Cost", "distinction": "Cost is money (EUR), measured by the ledger or estimated by a quote. Effort is counted in tokens and says nothing about which subscription pays for them."}, {"term": "Duration", "distinction": "Duration is time taken. Effort is tokens."}]

📖Nuance

Always say whose effort: an attempt's or the whole initiative's. The initiative figure includes every attempt along the escalation ladder; the attempt figure is one run of the work.

📖Also called

- estimated effort

📖Filed under

Category: work.

Service: Build Initiatives.