Core values · The price paid · Element

The cost

What holding the value actually cost.

The part

What it is

Revenue forgone, a person lost, a delay accepted. Quantified where possible, because the number is what makes the story credible rather than self-congratulatory.

Costs that turned out to be trivial should be recorded as such; overstating them is how values become mythology.

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.