📖What it means

The effort of an initiative in total: the sum of the attempt efforts of every attempt in its family, including each rung of the escalation ladder it climbed. Derived when read, never stored, so it moves by itself when a new attempt is opened and sized.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Attempt effort", "distinction": "Attempt effort is one attempt; initiative effort is all of them added up."}, {"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."}]

📖Nuance

A pursuit's completion by effort divides the initiative effort of its closed steps by the initiative effort of all its steps. If any attempt of any step is unsized the answer is unmeasured, and the steps missing an estimate are named.

📖Also called

- total initiative effort

📖Filed under

Category: work.

Service: Build Initiatives.