Direction of growth · The growth split · Element

The basis

What each expectation rests on.

The part

What it is

An expectation drawn from existing performance is a different thing from one drawn from a market study or an assumption.

Marking the basis is what lets a reviewer see which parts of the plan are extrapolation and which are hope.

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.