{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/estimate-approvals-and-integration-as-deliverables",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0632",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Estimate approvals and integration as deliverables",
  "summary": "A feature is not delivered when only its middle is done.",
  "kind": "principle",
  "body": "Treat required approval, integration, deployment, validation and handoff as work packages with owners and dependencies. They may contain little build effort but substantial elapsed risk. Include them in the done definition when the outcome depends on them.",
  "limits": [
    "Some approvals are outside the delivery team's control; include them as dependencies without inventing control."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-project-estimation-and-delivery-realism"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-B3FC6B5B65061AB3"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "IPA cost-estimating guidance recommends documenting assumptions and representing uncertainty with reasonably optimistic, most-likely and reasonably pessimistic positions where appropriate.",
      "source_id": "RS-B3FC6B5B65061AB3",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Three-point estimates are inputs to judgment or modelling, not proof of a probability distribution.",
      "locator": "Estimate ranges and assumptions"
    },
    {
      "claim": "IPA guidance notes that uncertainty and estimate range depend on the maturity and variability of input data, so estimates should evolve as design and evidence mature.",
      "source_id": "RS-B3FC6B5B65061AB3",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "A later estimate can still be wrong; maturity narrows uncertainty only when real information has improved.",
      "locator": "Estimate maturity and range"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "The implementation is estimated, while review, approval, import and verification are treated as administrative afterthoughts."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Some approvals are outside the delivery team's control; include them as dependencies without inventing control."
  ],
  "example": "'Code complete' is not the delivery estimate when transport, business validation and production confirmation are still required.",
  "check": "The forecast ends at the actual usable outcome, not at the team's favorite internal milestone.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-B3FC6B5B65061AB3",
      "title": "Cost Estimating Guidance",
      "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cost-estimating-guidance/cost-estimating-guidance"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0632",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0623",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/put-the-slow-external-dependency-on-the-forecast"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-3C67E080415E2677",
      "title": "Estimate the delivery system, not only the hands-on work",
      "url": "/collections/estimate-the-delivery-system-not-only-the-hands-on-work"
    }
  ]
}