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.
The other elements in the tracking cadence
The rhythm
How often each indicator is read.
LearnThe reader
Who takes the reading and who receives it.
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