Quarterly objectives · The objective set · Element
The trace
Which longer-range goal each objective serves.
The part
What it is
An objective that traces to nothing above it is either urgent operational work or a distraction, and the distinction is worth making explicitly.
Tracing upward is also what makes it possible to say at quarter end that a quarter went well but the wrong way.
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.