{
  "example_kind": "original synthetic manual planning case",
  "slug": "dependency-bundle-priority",
  "title": "Evaluate a task together with its prerequisite",
  "scenario": "Synthetic planning case: Task A claims nine declared points for three implementation-hours but requires five prerequisite-hours. B offers eight points for six hours with no additional prerequisite in the model.",
  "layout": "allocation",
  "dataset": {
    "heading": "Inspect the invented case records",
    "headers": [
      "Option",
      "Implementation",
      "Prerequisite",
      "Total",
      "Points"
    ],
    "rows": [
      [
        "A",
        "3 hours",
        "5 hours",
        "8 hours",
        "9"
      ],
      [
        "B",
        "6 hours",
        "0 additional",
        "6 hours",
        "8"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "derivation": "A isolated=9/3=3, but bundle=9/8=1.125. B=8/6≈1.333. The declared ratio rule selects B only after the full enabling demand is included.",
  "result": "Compare A’s eight-hour bundle with B’s six hours. Under the stated points-per-hour policy, B has the larger ratio; A’s isolated implementation ratio is misleading.",
  "boundary": "The decision evaluates enabling work together with the proposed outcome, instead of comparing incomplete task costs.",
  "limitations": "Prerequisite effort and preference points are invented. Dependencies, reused inputs and hard constraints must be verified in real work.",
  "sources": [
    "original"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    [
      "Identify enabling obligations",
      "Task owner",
      "A’s five-hour prerequisite is necessary and not already supplied."
    ],
    [
      "Compare the actual bundles",
      "Planner",
      "A uses eight hours and B six under this model."
    ],
    [
      "Check prerequisite reuse separately",
      "Decision owner",
      "Any claim that A’s enabler benefits other work is evaluated explicitly before changing the comparison."
    ]
  ],
  "faqs": [
    [
      "Can a shared enabler be charged differently?",
      "Possibly, but its allocation and benefits need a stated portfolio rule; this case charges it entirely to A."
    ],
    [
      "Does the ratio dictate every priority decision?",
      "No. It is one declared local preference rule, not a universal value or deadline policy."
    ]
  ],
  "method_references": [
    {
      "id": "original",
      "title": "Original worked-case definitions",
      "scope": "Definitions, policy choices, records and calculations are authored for this worksheet. No external standard, statistical validation or live product measurement is claimed."
    }
  ]
}