The cycle · The operating cycle · Element
The obligations
What has to happen and when.
The part
What it is
Statutory filing, audit, budget, appraisals, insurance and contract renewals. Each with a date and a duration.
Most organisations can list eight to twelve and have never seen them on one chart.
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.