Initiatives · The initiative brief · Element
The link
Which goal this initiative serves, and how.
The part
What it is
An initiative with no stated link is either operational work or something that arrived for other reasons. Both are worth catching before funding.
Stating the mechanism, not just the connection, is what makes the link testable.
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.
LearnThe boundaries
What is inside the initiative and what is explicitly not.
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