Defining the work · The definition of done · Element

The tail

What tends to remain after the main work is finished.

The part

What it is

Documentation, edge cases, training and the small things nobody scoped. The tail is where projects lose weeks.

Estimating it explicitly rather than assuming it disappears is what makes the end date real.

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.