{
  "example_kind": "original synthetic manual planning case",
  "slug": "preparation-capacity-before-execution",
  "title": "Reserve preparation before execution capacity",
  "scenario": "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.",
  "layout": "allocation",
  "dataset": {
    "heading": "Inspect the invented case records",
    "headers": [
      "Obligation",
      "Operator-hours",
      "Treatment"
    ],
    "rows": [
      [
        "Fixture preparation",
        "3",
        "Required before checks"
      ],
      [
        "Check execution",
        "8",
        "Planned workload"
      ],
      [
        "Available window",
        "10",
        "Same operator pool"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "derivation": "3+8=11 hours of stated demand; 11−10=1 hour uncovered. Ten available hours do not all remain available for execution.",
  "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.",
  "boundary": "This budgets a necessary setup stage before counting execution availability.",
  "limitations": "The hour values are invented estimates. Actual preparation effort and required review coverage need their own evidence.",
  "sources": [
    "schedule"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    [
      "Confirm preparation scope",
      "Fixture owner",
      "The three-hour fixture obligation is explicit and assigned."
    ],
    [
      "Reconcile the full rehearsal",
      "Test coordinator",
      "Preparation and execution consume the same ten-hour pool."
    ],
    [
      "Choose a bounded change",
      "Review lead",
      "A named check or preparation route changes; required evidence is not silently omitted."
    ]
  ],
  "faqs": [
    [
      "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."
    ]
  ],
  "method_references": [
    {
      "id": "schedule",
      "title": "GAO Schedule Assessment Guide",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-16-89g",
      "scope": "General schedule-model context. All records, local policies and arithmetic are original toy examples, not a certified or optimized schedule."
    }
  ]
}