Building · The route decision · Element
The options
Each route costed and timed honestly, including the one nobody favours.
The part
What it is
The favoured route is usually costed carefully and the alternatives sketched, which guarantees the comparison confirms the preference.
Acquisition costs in particular are consistently understated, because integration cost sits outside the purchase price and outside the business case.
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.
Time to capability
How long until the competence is actually usable, not until the transaction closes.
Duration shared type