Leading indicators · The tracking cadence · Element

The record

Where readings are kept, so a trend can be seen rather than a point.

The part

What it is

A single reading says almost nothing. The value of an indicator is in its movement, which requires the readings to accumulate somewhere.

Recording the location is what stops the history living in one person’s spreadsheet.

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.