Their own process · The requirements · Element

When it is settled

The phase at which the requirement becomes fixed, after which arriving with an alternative is too late.

The part

What it is

This is the field that turns the requirement list into a calendar. A requirement settled in phase two cannot be influenced in phase four, whatever the relationship is worth.

Where the answer is unknown, recording it as unknown is worth more than a guess, because it names the thing worth finding out first.

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.