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.