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c. Identify Level 3 means for accomplishing the Level 2 items.
d. Continue to the necessary level of detail.
2. Bottom–Up
a. State single high-level (Level 1) objective.
b. Identify the specic actions needed to accomplish that objective. (Working at the
most detailed level of the diagram.)
c. Group the specic actions into natural clusters (using the Afnity Diagram
process). Write the descriptions of these groups.
d. If necessary, create one more level of grouping, leading to the Level 1 objective.
Once the ow down diagram is drawn and the variables are zeroed in the diagram,
itshould be reviewed for validation. The review should follow these steps: