The profile · The situation · Element
The constraints
What limits what they can do.
The part
What it is
Budget authority, approval requirements, existing commitments and time. These decide whether a good solution is adoptable.
Budget authority is the one most often assumed and most often wrong, particularly in organisations where the user and the buyer differ.
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 situation
The context
What their working situation is.
LearnThe current solution
What they do about the problem today.
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