Available work time estimation

Determination of how much actual time each developer on the team has available for work can have significant impact on the entire development process. The process of estimating actual worker-hours available is crucial to good estimates of TPS development efforts, and must be accomplished before any real estimate of completion times for project tasks is made. A discussion of estimation techniques is not part of this paper. Rather it deals with just one of the steps (determining actual time available for work) that must be taken before a realistic estimate for any (TPS or other) project can be made.