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A Stream is a group of roles that typically work together on common activities or deliverables. They are a simple, yet powerful concept in Estii that makes it easier to assign estimates to multiple roles, and track the total effort attributed to them.

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Stream overview

Streams are common to all deals within a space. Access Streams from the main menu.

• A stream can represent a loaded resource, a team (or group of teams) or a common deliverable
• Streams contain allocations of resources, either directly through roles, or indirectly through other streams. The ratio (or scale) of these allocations determine how effort assigned to the stream is distributed across those resources
• Stream allocations can either be a shared resource (default) or dedicated resource for that stream.
• Streams can be allocated to features and overheads within a phase
• Streams can be added or removed from the scope of a phase (like features), and contribute to the calculated duration of the phase schedule

Add stream

To add a stream, click New stream to open a new stream window. Enter a name and assign some resources (see below)

<aside> ☝️ A space can contain up to 50 streams

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Reorder streams

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