Leading indicators · The tracking cadence · Element

The rhythm

How often each indicator is read.

The part

What it is

The rule of thumb is to read at roughly a third of the lag: an indicator that leads by three months is read monthly.

Cadence should be reviewed when the lag changes, which happens more often than people expect.

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.