Reason for being · The laddering record · Element
Participants
Who took part in reaching the statement.
The part
What it is
A purpose reached by three people in a room carries differently from one reached across the organisation, and the record should make that visible.
It also identifies who can explain the reasoning later, which is usually more useful than the document itself.
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.
Name and role
Names the people who can reconstruct the argument without the document.
Role shared type