Foundation

Defer-with-reason

Honest scope

RequiredOperating model
ContractDefer-with-reason
Job
Honest scope
Requirement
must specify
States / rules
Defer names the job not needed and who decides
Specified means
Invalid: “Make had billing”
Hardest context
Promoting leftover because it existed
Example

“Analytics leftover until a weekly job exists — Vincent”

Counter-example

“N/A because prototype”

How this lives in Building Blocks

Representation: Operating / governance contract.

Building Blocks should provide the operating rule, review path, and source-of-truth guidance. A consuming product still records its product-specific answer and does not treat central governance as operational unless it actually exists.

Do not specify the easy case only.

The source checklist’s hardest-context test is part of what “specified” means: Promoting leftover because it existed.

On-spec signal

“Analytics leftover until a weekly job exists — Vincent”

Failure signal

“N/A because prototype”

Catalog connection

The product-local Catalog should show this row’s actual state for that product using the Catalog contract. Building Blocks documentation can define the baseline, but it does not make a product’s row Specified, Designed, or In code by itself.

See the Catalog contract →