Cascade and catchball · The cascade brief · Element
The problem
The situation the goal is meant to answer.
The part
What it is
Without the problem, a team optimises for the metric rather than the outcome, and often does so successfully.
This is the element that lets someone closer to the work propose a better route to the same end.
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 ask
What is being requested of this team.
LearnThe constraints
What is fixed and what is open to negotiation.
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