Initiatives · The initiative brief · Element
The boundaries
What is inside the initiative and what is explicitly not.
The part
What it is
Scope creep enters through the gap between what was stated and what was assumed. The exclusions are the half that closes it.
Writing two or three explicit exclusions costs a minute and prevents most of the argument.
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 initiative brief
The output
What will exist when this is done.
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Which goal this initiative serves, and how.
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