# The Aggregate

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**How this helped:**\
This was helpful when we weren't sure how much a project would cost or how much time it would take to deliver, but we were sure on rough estimates.
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## Structure

### Flexible Compensation

Compensation is defined as a range upfront, where upon delivery (or reassessment) players decide where in that range the contribution fits.

This structure reduces pay related conflict with a smaller increase in coordination costs from needing to assess and assign value.

### Examples

* A proposal to create an app with ABC specifications for $30K-$70K. Delivery is binary and ABC is **unclear.**  
* A role assignment to deliver ABC over N period at a B3-B5 complexity level. Each cycle other members assess where between B3-B5 they feel the member contributed. 

### Suggested When

Teams are doing similar work and they have a high degree of innate wisdom on roughly how much things should cost. 

Teams are **not** willing to invest the time upfront to assess and define a value before starting a contribution to the community. 

Teams value the feedback from their members. 

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The flexibility to shift pay based on delivers may make teams more willing and trusting to enter into new relationships and experiment with new types of contributions.<br>
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### Known Pitfalls:

Members don't always know how much another members should get paid and don't always want to spend time thinking about it.&#x20;

Members may end up making assessments on superficial reasoning or not participate in the process at all.&#x20;

Members may not like the idea of judging/assessing each-other and look at this as a harmful activity.

### Hypha DHO Template:

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#### Authored by Rieki Cordon, Hypha DHO


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