Three Core Questions

Through this book, we’ll be able to answer these three core questions about a system and a metric:

Question 1: Are we achieving our target or goal?

• Are we doing so occasionally?
• Are we doing so consistently?

Question 2: Are we improving?

• Can we predict future performance?

Question 3: How do we improve?

• When do we react?
• When do we step back and improve the system?
• How can we prove we’ve improved

The aim of this book is not learning how to create charts for our metrics; it’s about improving performance through these methods and these questions.