Year Wheel · The review rhythm · Component
The cadences
What is reviewed weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually — matched to how fast each thing actually changes.
The deliverable
What it is
Reviewing something more often than it changes produces noise and meetings. Reviewing it less often than it changes means finding out late.
Most organisations use one cadence for everything, usually monthly, which is wrong for both the fast things and the slow ones.
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What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The match
Whether the cadence fits the rate of change.
3 attributes: Item · Rate of change · Matched
LearnThe decisions
What each cadence is allowed to decide.
3 attributes: Can decide · Escalates · Decisions taken
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A review without decision rights becomes a status meeting, which is the fate of most of them.
The other components in the review rhythm
The distribution
Where the reviews sit across the year, and whether they land in the months that can carry them.
LearnThe adherence
Whether the rhythm is actually kept — because a rhythm that lapses under pressure lapses when it is most needed.
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