Qualifying · The authority · Element
The levels
Who can commit what.
The part
What it is
Two or three levels with clear limits. More produces uncertainty about which applies, which costs the time the levels were meant to save.
The lowest level should be able to commit enough to act on a genuinely small opportunity.
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 authority
The escalation
How a larger decision is reached quickly.
LearnThe record
What was decided and by whom.
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