Evolution · The continuity cost · Element
The direct cost
What changing it would cost to execute.
The part
What it is
Material rewritten, people re-briefed, external carriers re-equipped, and the internal effort of getting everyone onto the new version.
The internal effort is the part consistently underestimated.
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.
The other elements in the continuity cost
The accumulated
What has been built up in the current narrative.
LearnThe overlap period
How long both stories would be in the market.
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