Objectives and PerformanceSpecifications: The Criteriafor Accomplishment1
Knowing where you are headed and how to accurately measure when you have arrived is central to successful planning, doing, delivering, and accomplishment; this is enabled by using measurable objectives. Measurable objectives are statements of where you are headed and how to measure when you have arrived; they have the performance specifications for reliably assessing completion. They also provide the criteria for planning by stating measurable results to be accomplished.
Mega Planning will additionally ensure that the “where you are headed” is the right destination. Now let’s just identify how to define results—any level of result. Figure 5.1 provides some guidance. ...
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