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An Index to Measure a System's Performance Risk

Abstract: : Technical Performance Measures (TPMs) are traditionally defined and evaluated to assess how well a system is achieving its performance requirements. Typically dozens of TPMs are defined for a system. Although they generate useful information and data about a system performance little is available in the program management community on how to integrate these measures into a meaningful measure of the system overall performance risk. This paper presents how individual TPMs may be combined to measure and monitor the overall performance risk of a system. The approach consists of integrating individual technical performance measures in a way that produces an overall risk index. The computed index shows the degree of performance risk presently in the system. It identifies risk-driving TPMs enables monitoring time-history trends and reveals where management should target strategies to lessen or eliminate the performance risks of the system.