Tooling · The retirement plan · Element

The dependencies

What else relies on the tool, including things nobody documented.

The part

What it is

Tools accumulate dependents quietly: a report someone built, an integration to a partner, an automated email nobody remembers setting up.

Switching off before finding these produces the failures that make organisations reluctant to retire anything.

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.