Estimate class
A label declaring how mature the scope definition was when an estimate was produced, and therefore how wide its expected accuracy range is.
Reference
The terms these arguments rest on, defined and attributed.
Most of the terms below are misused in a specific and repeatable way. Each entry says what the term means, and then says how it usually goes wrong, which is generally the more useful half.
These are definitions rather than arguments. Where a term is genuinely contested, the entry says so and points at the article that takes a position. Every factual claim carries its source, and the citation is written to be complete without the link.
Inception & Development
The stageContingency
An allowance included in an estimate for the cost of risks that are expected to occur but cannot yet be identified individually.
TOTEX
A regulatory allowance framework that combines capital and operating expenditure into a single allowance, so a regulated company has no financial reason to prefer building something over operating differently.
Delivery & Controls
The stageHandover & Transition
The stageOperational readiness
The process of preparing the organisation that will own an asset, and the people who will run it, to take it over and operate it from the day it is handed across.
As-built records
The record of what was actually constructed, as distinct from what was designed, handed to the owner as a condition of taking over.
Correspondence
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