Meaningfully measuring performance is one of the hardest tasks for team managers in Agile environments. It is not only difficult, but most of the time, adopting ephemeral metrics can become ...

Performance management starts before the employee even reports to work on his first day -- it begins during the recruitment and selection process and continues throughout the employment relationship.

One of the most difficult things for managers is coming up with good metrics that are an indication of the performance of the business. After all, that's what key performance indicators are supposed ...

With fewer employees in their talent pool than large enterprises, measuring performance is particularly pertinent for small businesses. Job performance measurements are useful in determining ...

I was impressed with the analysis and recommendation offered in a recent book, “Trust the Plan: Demand Management For Business Leaders,” by Greg Spira. Greg brings a wealth of experience based on his ...

For some time, many of us in the prevention field have been discussing model performance measures for fire prevention programs. It’s no secret that the measures apply for other injury-control ...

More and more companies, government agencies, educational institutions and philanthropic organizations are today in the grip of a new phenomenon. I’ve termed it “metric fixation.” The key components ...

Every person and organization has some familiarity with performance metrics and reporting, yet how to take that experience and apply it to asset management is not straightforward. Looking at industry ...

The word "performance" is widely used in many contexts. When applied to infrastructure, the word generally is understood to mean supplying clean water, moving people and goods from one point to ...

This article takes you through the types of measurements and tools you need to measure enterprise SSD performance. SSDs have pronounced write-history sensitivity, which means that they have unique ...