Deal with problems, or at least have detailed and costed plans you can share.
It outlined and costed a $2m plan with six main steps and 12 "campaign elements".
A full (and costed) design for the new warheads was supposed to be unveiled in December.
It contains 36 recommendations each of which are implementable and costed.
But the shadow chancellor said voters would only back Labour's promise of change if it is seen to be credible and costed.
The mechanics of how such a contract is constructed and costed is one issue; another is Miliband's need to develop a more populist touch.
Mining projects are usually planned and costed over decades, not quarters, and so far analysts' projections for the price of iron over the medium term have remained unchanged.
That is why we have scoped and costed work that will improve and extend existing facilities as well as introduce some exciting new ones.
The Labour leader wrote in a post on his Facebook page that he would fight the election on a "radical alternative programme for government" drawn up and costed over the past four years.
Between now and 30 March, all the detail of the "big ticket" items of the new scheme need to be considered and costed: contribution and accrual rates, revaluation rate, protections, employer cap and cost management mechanism.
However, there was significant heterogeneity with respect to how KC treatments were defined and costed.
