Vocabulary · Volume 1 and Volume 2

Cohort

Workloads grouped for a stated planning reason, with maintained membership, an owner, and a way to detect exceptions. A cohort is more than a residual line called “Other.”

The definition appears in the Volume 1 glossary and Volume 2 glossary. This page collects where the book uses the term and where the blog takes it up.

Discussed in the book

Chapters where “Cohort” is discussed at length, ranked by how directly each section treats it.

Volume II, Chapter 15: The Long Tail and the Spike
Sections: Put an investigation threshold next to the headroom · Errors do not necessarily cancel · Give the remainder an owner
Volume II, Chapter 16: A Portfolio of Customers
Sections: A process for the largest consumers and the long tail

Ask the book about cohort

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