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📖What it means
Being able to follow a thing back to why it exists — a number to its definition, a change to its initiative, a policy to the principle it serves. Where a chain breaks, nothing downstream can be trusted, however correct it looks.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Provenance
Provenance is where ONE value came from; traceability is the whole chain.
Not: Evidence
Traceability shows the link exists; evidence shows the claim is true.
🗣️Also called
audit traillineagechain of reasoning