Ownership · The responsibility split · Element

Accountable and responsible

Who answers for it, and who actually does it.

The part

What it is

These are separated deliberately. The owner answers for the outcome; the responsible people produce it, and there may be several.

Where they are the same person, saying so explicitly avoids the assumption that someone else is covering it.

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.