Leading indicators · The tracking cadence · Element
The reader
Who takes the reading and who receives it.
The part
What it is
Separating who reads from who acts is usually a mistake at this level. The person watching an early signal should be close enough to respond.
Where they must differ, the handover has to be explicit or the signal is lost between them.
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.
The other elements in the tracking cadence
The rhythm
How often each indicator is read.
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Where readings are kept, so a trend can be seen rather than a point.
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