Milestones · The go / no-go record · Element
The basis
What the decision was made on.
The part
What it is
Recording the basis is what allows a later reviewer to separate a bad decision from a reasonable decision made on incomplete information.
Where a criterion was unmet and the project continued anyway, this is where that shows.
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.
The other elements in the go / no-go record
The decision
What was decided at the checkpoint.
LearnStopping authority
Who is empowered to stop the work, and what they would need to see.
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