performance measurement baseline

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performance measurement baseline

[pər¦fȯrm·əns ¦mezh·ər·mənt ′bās‚līn]

(industrial engineering)

A time-phased budget plan developed for use in measuring contract performance; includes the budgets assigned to scheduled work elements and the related indirect budgets.

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The PMAG conducted close to 180 critical and near-critical path control account assessments to ensure the crucial $1.4 billion performance measurement baseline was executable.

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Every project should have a performance measurement baseline that looks at the budget spread over time to accomplish the scope of work, against which progress can be measured.

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Customs and Border Protection to have the SBI Executive Director, in collaboration with the SBInet Program Director, to establish and validate timely, complete, and accurate performance measurement baselines for each new task order or major modification of an existing task order, as appropriate, to include, but not be limited to, ensuring that (1) the work breakdown structure includes all work to be performed, (2) baseline schedules reflect the key schedule estimating practices discussed in this report, and (3) level-of-effort performance measurement in excess of 15 percent is scrutinized, justified, and minimized.

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