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Execution tracking — P80 trend + hindcast calibration

tab 5 Results · Execution tracking card · pairs with guide 02, monthly

A QSRA proves its worth in month six, when someone asks "has the forecast actually held?" The tracking log answers with data: each recorded update pins the date, seed, inputs hash and forecast, and the trend shows how the commitment date and the register really moved.

  1. Each month: re-link, run, record. After the guide 02 re-link and a fresh run, click 📈 Track this update at the bottom of 5 Results. That's the whole ceremony. (It refuses politely if nothing changed since the last entry — the inputs hash is checked — or if the post-run variance pre-warm is still finishing; wait a beat and click again.)
  2. Read the trend. The P80 completion line against the deterministic plan shows drift as it develops — a P80 walking right month after month is an early warning no single run gives you. The risk burn-down beneath tracks open risks and their expected-value days as the register retires. Execution tracking card with P80 trend chart, risk burn-down and the update log listing seeds and input hashes
    Two updates in: forecast vs plan, risk burn-down, and a log where every entry carries its seed and inputs hash.
  3. Let the hindcast grade your calibration. From two entries the card reads the current plan position against your earlier forecast distributions and says it plainly: well calibrated, optimistic (reality landing beyond your old P80s) or cautious (inside P20). It's a running signal against today's plan-with-actuals, not a final score — but it's the difference between "we do QSRA" and "our QSRAs are calibrated".
  4. Audit any entry. Every row keeps seed, iterations and the SHA-256 inputs hash — the same fingerprint the reproducibility certificate uses — so any month's number can be re-derived exactly. The log lives in the Risk File; deliberately, it is excluded from the certificate hash, so tracking never changes what a certificate attests.
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