Cascade and catchball · The cascade brief · Element
The ask
What is being requested of this team.
The part
What it is
The ask is stated as a contribution to a higher goal rather than as an isolated target, so that the team can judge whether their proposal serves it.
Making it explicitly provisional is what signals that a counter-proposal is genuinely wanted.
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 cascade brief
The problem
The situation the goal is meant to answer.
LearnThe constraints
What is fixed and what is open to negotiation.
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