Alignment · Decision gates · Element
The gate
The point in an existing process where the test is applied.
The part
What it is
Gates work best when they sit inside a process that already exists. A new approval step invented to carry the purpose test will be routed around within a quarter.
The test itself is one question, recorded rather than merely asked: how does this serve the stated purpose?
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.