Performance Measurement Practices

Performance Measurement practices involve setting up and managing a performance measurement system.

A performance measurement system is an integral part of a performance improvement system framework. Performance measurement provides the foundation of methods and activities to effectively establish and maintain an infrastructure to capture and report metrics that quantify the organization's achievement of defined performance objectives. This foundation is expressed as two practices:
Performance measurement embraces the following core principles to leverage metrics for maximum business value to the organization: The strengths of Rational Team Concert™ as a performance measurement tool lie in its ability to monitor lower level activity-based measurements.
Multi-tiered performance measurement involves monitoring key measures organized on three levels:: Rational Team Concert provides some measurement capabilities at the operational level, but is primarily capable of practice level measurement. For more information on these three levels of measurement, reference the Practices library that comes with IBM Rational Method Composer. For general information on IBM Practices, see IBM Practices on developerWorks.