The story · The tension · Element

The difficulty

What nearly did not work, or what had to be given up.

The part

What it is

Specific rather than general. “It was hard” is not tension; “we spent eighteen months building the wrong thing” is.

The difficulty should be real and survivable in the telling — something the organisation can name without it undermining current confidence.

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.