Discarded lines

Chains that were followed and abandoned, with the reason.

The part

What it is

These are the record of what the organisation decided it was not, which is a different and often more useful statement than what it decided it was.

When a purpose is later questioned, the discarded lines usually contain the alternative being proposed.

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.

Line
Names a direction the organisation consciously refused.
Text shared type
Why dropped
Prevents the same line being proposed again as though it were new.
Reason shared type