Capacity planning · The demand plan · Element
The peaks
Where demand concentrates, as distinct from where it averages.
The part
What it is
Seasonal, weekly and end-of-period peaks all produce the same effect: capacity sized to the average cannot serve them.
The choice is between building for the peak, levelling the demand, or accepting delay during it — and it should be a choice.
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.