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.