Cascade and catchball · The counter-proposals · Element
The proposal
What the team says it can commit to.
The part
What it is
The proposal states a commitment rather than a preference. A team that says what it would like has not engaged with the constraint.
Recording the difference from the ask is what makes the pattern visible over several cycles.
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 conditions
What the team would need for the commitment to hold.
LearnWhat they saw
Information the team has that the goal-setter did not.
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