Example of Asset Reuse Efforts Estimation

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Assume you have created an asset, where you have captured initial time spent on creating this under an attribute Estimated Efforts in hours. When you download this asset, you have an option to record Actual Efforts in hours, which you might have presumably saved on reusing this asset. These metrics, estimated and actual efforts, are used by the smart report engine to derive overall time saved on reusing assets by users in a community.

Before you begin

  • An asset with custom attribute "Estimated Efforts" must have been created by the administrator.
  • Your administrator must have configured a smart report Asset Reuse Effort Estimation based on the custom attribute Estimated Effort. For more details on configuring a smart report, refer Configuring Smart Report Analytics.

About this task

To generate a Asset Reuse Efforts Estimation smart report, the community administrator and the user reusing an asset must capture the following two types of efforts:
  • Estimated Effort - This effort is recorded while creating the asset for the first time by the community administrator.
  • Actual Effort - This effort is saved by you reusing an asset.
Capturing Estimated Effort

In the Submit an Asset page, administrator must have captured first time effort spent in the Estimated Effort attribute box while submitting an asset.

Capturing Actual Effort

When you download this asset, the notification icon displays an alert indicating number of attributes associated to the asset, where in this example, it is the Estimated Effort attribute as the point of reference associated to this asset. In the notification dialog box, you can capture Actual Efforts box, under the Asset Reuse Effort Estimation tab.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Rational Asset Manager application through your user account.
  2. Search and download required asset from the asset repository.
    After you download the asset, a notification bell icon displays an alert on the upper-right area of the page. This alert indicates number of attributes associated to the asset you have downloaded.
  3. Click the notification bell icon.
    The notification dialog box is displayed, where you must enter the actual efforts in the Asset Reuse Effort Estimation tab.
    Note: Depending on the smart report configuration, each attribute associated to the downloaded asset is categorized into different tabs in the notification dialog box. Under each attribute tab, the initial estimated value defined for the downloaded asset is mentioned, against which you must enter the actual value you have saved on reusing this asset.
  4. In the Actual Efforts (Hrs) value box, corresponding to each attribute estimated value, enter the actual value you have saved on reusing them.
  5. Click Submit.