Cascade and catchball · The counter-proposals · Element
The conditions
What the team would need for the commitment to hold.
The part
What it is
Conditions are where the real constraints surface: a dependency nobody upstream knew about, a hiring lead time, a system that has to change first.
A proposal with no conditions is usually one that has not been thought through, or one where the ask was already comfortable.
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 counter-proposals
The proposal
What the team says it can commit to.
LearnWhat they saw
Information the team has that the goal-setter did not.
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