Tooling · The fit assessment · Element
The process compromises
Where the process was changed to accommodate the tool.
The part
What it is
These are the entries that matter. Each represents a decision about how work is done that was made by a software vendor rather than by the organisation.
Some are trivial and some are significant, and nobody can tell which without listing them.
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.
Severity
Whether it is a minor accommodation or a material change to how work is done.
Choice shared typeSince
When it started, since old compromises are frequently mistaken for how things must be.
Date shared type
The other elements in the fit assessment
The requirements
What the process actually needs from the tool.
LearnThe fit
How well the tool meets each requirement in practice.
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