Deliverability · The breaking point · Element

The failure step

The part of the process that gives way first.

The part

What it is

One step fails before the others. Identifying it converts a general worry about reliability into a specific and usually affordable fix.

It is frequently not the step people assume, and it is found by looking at the actual failures rather than by reasoning.

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.