Standards and quality · The check points · Element
The placement
Where in the process each check happens.
The part
What it is
The best placement is immediately after the step that could produce the defect, where the context to fix it still exists.
A check placed three steps later requires the work to travel back, which is the rework loop that dominates most process times.
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.
Steps downstream
The distance between production and detection, which is the cost multiplier.
Number shared type