# Reserve preparation before execution capacity

Illustrative planning brief; no automatic product import.

Synthetic planning case: A team has ten operator-hours for a data rehearsal. Preparing the fixture takes three hours and executing the planned checks takes eight.

## Decision

The rehearsal needs eleven hours, leaving a one-hour shortfall. Preserve preparation as an owned obligation before reducing the execution set or moving the window.

## Owned work

- Confirm preparation scope
  - Owner role: Fixture owner
  - Acceptance evidence: The three-hour fixture obligation is explicit and assigned.
- Reconcile the full rehearsal
  - Owner role: Test coordinator
  - Acceptance evidence: Preparation and execution consume the same ten-hour pool.
- Choose a bounded change
  - Owner role: Review lead
  - Acceptance evidence: A named check or preparation route changes; required evidence is not silently omitted.

## Workflow

1. Confirm preparation scope. Check: The three-hour fixture obligation is explicit and assigned.
2. Reconcile the full rehearsal. Check: Preparation and execution consume the same ten-hour pool.
3. Choose a bounded change. Check: A named check or preparation route changes; required evidence is not silently omitted.

## Judgment

The hour values are invented estimates. Actual preparation effort and required review coverage need their own evidence.


## Filled manual planning note

The rehearsal needs eleven hours, leaving a one-hour shortfall. Preserve preparation as an owned obligation before reducing the execution set or moving the window. 3+8=11 hours of stated demand; 11−10=1 hour uncovered. Ten available hours do not all remain available for execution. The hour values are invented estimates. Actual preparation effort and required review coverage need their own evidence.


## Workflow questions

### Can setup be ignored because it is not a test?

No. It still consumes the same available resource and is a prerequisite in this case.

### Does the ledger decide which check to remove?

No. The review owner must protect required coverage when changing the plan.

## Product connection

Use the owned checks and downloaded brief to discuss this planning decision alongside your TeamBoostAI tasks. Confirm available fields, roles and account features separately. The example is manual; it does not calculate live analytics, create work or run an experiment in the product.

Confirm account availability before adopting this manual outline.

## Original worked case

Synthetic records, manual planning only. No account import or live analytics.

### Inspect the invented case records

Obligation | Operator-hours | Treatment
--- | --- | ---
Fixture preparation | 3 | Required before checks
Check execution | 8 | Planned workload
Available window | 10 | Same operator pool

### Reasoning

3+8=11 hours of stated demand; 11−10=1 hour uncovered. Ten available hours do not all remain available for execution.

### Bounded result

The rehearsal needs eleven hours, leaving a one-hour shortfall. Preserve preparation as an owned obligation before reducing the execution set or moving the window.

### Distinct decision

This budgets a necessary setup stage before counting execution availability.

### Limits

The hour values are invented estimates. Actual preparation effort and required review coverage need their own evidence.

### Definitions and method context

- GAO Schedule Assessment Guide — https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-16-89g — General schedule-model context. All records, local policies and arithmetic are original toy examples, not a certified or optimized schedule.