Defining the work · The change record · Element

The cost

What each change cost in time.

The part

What it is

Estimated at the point of agreeing it. A change agreed without a time cost is a change absorbed into the buffer silently.

The cumulative figure is what explains a slipped date.

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.