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.
Cost to strengthen
What it would take to move the breaking point, which is often small.
Money shared type