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COMPEL Glossary / lagging-indicator
Lagging indicator
A metric that confirms an outcome after the fact — e.g., quarterly revenue, retention after 90 days, defect rate after release.
What this means in practice
Used as the ground-truth for value measurement but too slow to drive operational decisions alone; typically paired with leading indicators.
Synonyms
lagging metric , outcome indicator
See also
- Leading indicator — A metric that moves before the outcome does — predicting near-term outcome trajectory.
- Primary metric — The single metric whose movement drives an experiment's ship/no-ship decision.
- Realized value — The outcome the organisation actually captures from an AI feature, after accounting for adoption, override, and drift effects — distinct from shipped value, which is the theoretical capacity.
- Measurement plan — A pre-launch document naming hypothesis, metrics, sources, cadence, analysis method, and decision rule for an AI feature.