Originally Posted by ekalpakoff
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...I fail to see why something that could be utilized to better cost estimate or catch an "i got ya" in a project would be an "excessive feature"?
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adding features is a sure way to create another set of gotchas if the feature is not implemented carefully. If there is some method for accomplishing the same end without implementing new features then it saves the user's and the developers the hassle of figuring out the new set of gotchas and working around or preventing. given that SI5 already has it's fair set of "gotchas" i would prefer they focus on solid software and stop the bleeding from all the "feature creep".
aside from that, maybe im not completely understanding the issue.
To reiterate: you wanted a method to identify the number of technicians it would take to install any particular
item. the idea being that if it takes 4 hours to install an item with 2 techs you want 8 hours accounted for. And you want someone to know that some portion of the job is going to require more than 1 tech.
rather than put 8 hours as the labor time for the item you want to put 4 hours for the labor time and indicate 2 techs (or 3 or whatever) in a variable (lets call it "crew count").
rather than put the items in a phase that indicates it requires multiple techs to accomplish the phase, you want the "crew count" to isolate these items somehow.