Roles

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Roles are time-based resources for estimating effort. These roles are shared across all rate cards in your space.

Roles are located in Space > Roles.

Roles overview

Each role has a unique name, as well as a cost, price and margin (per rate card).

Role cost

Cost is the raw internal value
Cost period is the time period used to calculate cost (e.g. per hour, day or year). If a period is not set, it defaults to the rate card period (which defaults to days)

Selecting the cost time period for a role

Role price and margin

Price is the value used in estimates. By default, it is calculated automatically using the rate card’s margin, however you can input a fixed value to control the price and margin per role.
Price period is locked to the rate card period. When the rate card period changes, fixed prices will automatically recalculate (e.g. 1K/day will update to $125/hour)
Margin is calculated automatically using the cost and price. If the margin is above or below the margin range for the rate card, it will highlight in orange.

Cost, price and margin for an example rate card

Role Actions

Add role

To add a new role, click New role and enter a unique name.

The role will be added to all rate cards in the space, and inherit the default cost, price and margin from the default rate card.
You can also import your existing roles and rates cards from a CSV file (see import/export section below)

Edit role

To edit a role, click the name, cost or price. Margins (and automatic prices) will recalculate automatically.
Editing an existing cost period will automatically recalculate the value to the new scale (e.g. 1K/day will update to $125/hour)

Delete role

If a role is already in use, you will be prompted to choose one of the following options before it can be removed

Map all references to another role
Remove all existing references

Reorder roles

Roles can be reordered via drag and drop. The order of roles and categories determines their display order elsewhere in the space (such as in autocomplete drop downs)

Import / export roles

Import roles

You can import roles from any spreadsheet or CSV format using the role importer.

See Importing roles and rate cards for more details

Export roles to CSV

Select Export roles from the ... menu to export all your roles and rate cards to a CSV file.

You can import and export roles and rate cards using the default CSV format below:

Column	Description	Notes
Name	Name of the resource	Required, unique per card
Card	The name of the rate card	Required. Use Default for the standard rates
Cost	The cost value (in the space currency)	Required
Cost unit	The cost time period (e.g. hour, day or year)	Required. Defaults to space work unit if blank
Cost set	Flag to inIndicate if cost is fixed or automatic
Price	A price value (if mode is fixed)	Optional. (if Price Set is 0)
Price unit	A price time period (if mode is fixed)	Export only (set by space work unit)
Price set	Flag to inIndicate if cost is fixed or automatic.	Required. Either 1 or 0
Margin	The calculated margin of the role	Export only, ignored on import

Example 1:

Name,Card,Cost,Cost Unit,Cost Set,Price,Price Unit,Price Set
Project Manager,Default,500,day,1,,day,0
Developer,Default,800,day,1,1400,day,1
Designer,Default,450,day,1,,day,0
Tester,Default,350,day,1,600,day,1

Example 2:

Name,Card,Cost,Cost Unit,Cost Set,Price,Price Unit,Price Set,Margin
Project Manager,Default,500,day,1,1000,day,0,50%
Developer,Default,800,day,1,1400,day,1,43%
Designer,Default,450,day,1,900,day,0,50%
Tester,Default,350,day,1,600,day,1,42%

Allocating roles

Deal roles and rate cards

Deals store a versioned copy of roles, rate cards and streams that can be updated from within a deal.

Stream allocations

Roles can be allocated to streams

Estimates and overheads

Roles can be assigned to tasks (estimates) within a feature
Roles can be allocated as overheads on a phase