Protecting · The dependency map · Element
The criticality
How severely the competence degrades if each dependency is lost.
The part
What it is
Not all dependencies are equal. Some cause inconvenience, some cause a slowdown, and a few stop the capability entirely.
Ranking them is what makes protection affordable, since protecting everything equally is protecting nothing effectively.
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 recover
How long to restore the capability if lost, which is the practical measure of severity.
Duration shared type