Programs and projects in your company, one of the largest banks in the world, are required to submit metrics as to their individual progress each month. To simplify the collection and reporting process, you held interviews with members of the Portfolio Review Board to see their areas of greatest interest and also with program and project managers to determine how difficult it would be to collect the data. You then selected 10 possible metrics to the Board, with a goal that five would be regularly reported. It is important to note that: