The statement · The activity · Element
The plain language test
Whether someone outside the industry would understand it.
The part
What it is
Read to someone who does not work in the field. If they cannot say what the organisation does, the sentence is written for insiders.
This is also the version employees will actually use, which makes it the operative mission whatever is published.
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 activity
The verb
What the organisation does, as an ordinary verb.
LearnThe tense
Whether it describes the present.
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