Sequence · The external items · Element

The lead time

How long it takes and how reliably.

The part

What it is

From experience rather than from what was quoted. The variability matters as much as the average, since a plan built on the average is late half the time.

The upper end is what the plan should use for anything on the critical path.

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.