The approver

Who decides, with a deputy.

The part

What it is

One person with a named deputy. Approval by committee produces delay and averaged decisions, both of which push people around the route.

The approver needs the authority to say yes, not only to escalate.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.

Approver
Who decides.
Person shared type
Deputy
Who decides in their absence, without which the route stops.
Person shared type
Turnaround
How quickly, which determines whether the route is used.
Duration shared type