The strength

How strongly each link is expected to hold.

The part

What it is

Strong links justify sequencing: doing one goal first because it makes the others cheaper. Weak ones do not.

Recording the strength is what makes the sequence defensible rather than intuitive.

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.

Expected strength
How much effect the link is expected to have.
Confidence shared type
Lag
How long before the effect appears.
Duration shared type

The other elements in the causal map

The links

Each expected causal relationship between goals.

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The isolates

Goals with no links in or out.