What the work is held to.
- Language
- Meaning is written down in a form that can be read, checked, and argued with.
- Agency
- Processes act as someone, in a role, with authority that can be traced to its source.
- Order
- Time, sequence, and precedence are represented in the system, not reconstructed afterwards.
- Intelligibility
- A system that cannot be explained to the people it affects is not finished.
- Accountability
- Every effect on the world carries a record of who authorised it and under which rule.
- Durable structure
- We build for institutions that outlast the projects running inside them.