Value review · The full cost · Element

The direct cost

What is actually paid, including everything outside the base price.

The part

What it is

Base fees, variable charges, change requests and the things billed separately that nobody adds together.

The total against the original expectation is worth stating, since drift is normal and invisible.

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.