Recognising them · The pattern · Element
The markers
What they tend to have in common.
The part
What it is
Time-limited, unusual in scale, and available because of a specific circumstance rather than through a normal process.
The third is the strongest marker: opportunities arriving through a normal process are usually ordinary.
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 pattern
The examples
What has looked like one before.
LearnThe blind spots
Where the organisation would not see one.
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