The failure test

Whether the marker could plausibly fail to move.

The part

What it is

Ask what would make this number fall. If the honest answer is that it rises whatever happens, it is measuring effort.

Markers that only ever rise are comfortable and worthless, and they are the ones that survive dashboard reviews.

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.

Could fail
Whether the marker can plausibly move the wrong way.
Choice shared type
What would make it fall
The circumstance that would move it adversely.
Text shared type
Kept
Whether the marker survived the test.
Choice shared type