Method · The assumptions · Element

The list

What the method requires to be true.

The part

What it is

Written before the analysis rather than added as caveats afterwards, since the first version is honest and the second is defensive.

Three or four is typical for a straightforward business analysis.

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.