Distribution · The rhythm · Element
The mismatch
Reports produced more or less often than they are used.
The part
What it is
Over-production is wasted effort; under-production means decisions are taken without the information.
Both are correctable by changing the schedule, which is one of the cheapest improvements in a reporting estate.
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.