Reporting · The report content · Element
The interpretation
What the change means, which is the part only you can supply.
The part
What it is
Numbers handed over without interpretation are interpreted by the recipient, and each will reach a different conclusion.
Interpretation is also where credibility is built, because it can be checked against what happens next.
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.
Confidence
How confident that reading is, which recipients value more than certainty.
Confidence shared typeWhat would change it
What would alter the interpretation, which is what makes it honest.
Text shared type
The other elements in the report content
The changes
What moved since the last report.
LearnThe actions
What is being done about what the report describes.
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