Sequence · The external items · Element
The items
What the project depends on externally.
The part
What it is
Approvals, supplier deliveries, another team’s work, a regulatory response, a customer decision.
The list is usually longer than the plan shows, because internal work is drawn in detail and waiting is drawn as an arrow.
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 external items
The lead time
How long it takes and how reliably.
LearnThe contact
Who to ask and what to do when it is late.
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