Building a Credible Performance Measurement Baseline † Establishing a credible Performance Measurement Baseline, with a risk adjusted Integrated Master Plan and Integrated Master Schedule, starts with the WBS and connects Technical Measures of progress to Earned Value

Without connecting the technical and quality measures to Earned Value, CPI and SPI provide little in the way of assuring the delivered products will actually perform as needed. To provide visibility to integrated cost, schedule, and technical performance, we need more than CPI and SPI. We need measures of the increasing technical maturity of the project’s system elements in units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. Those units include Effectiveness, Performance, all the …”ilities”, and risk reduction. ‡