The fallback plan · The alternative · Element

The option

What would be done instead.

The part

What it is

Specific enough to act on: a reduced scope, a different supplier, a manual process in place of the automated one.

One clear option is worth more than three sketched ones.

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.