Cascade and catchball · The agreed commitment · Element
What moved
How the final differs from the original ask, and why.
The part
What it is
This is the audit trail of the negotiation. It answers the question a reviewer will ask later about why the commitment is not what was originally requested.
A pattern of the ask always winning, or always losing, both point at a problem with the practice rather than with any one round.
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 agreed commitment
The final commitment
What was actually agreed.
LearnThe acceptance
Confirmation that the owner agreed it was achievable.
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