Consider the parameters such as delay in servicing an event, the number of waiting tasks, clock frequency, power manager delay, state transition time, detection probability and task execution deadline etc. as performance measure parameters.
That woeful performance damaged "Deadline," which fared reasonably well in its first try then fell back on Monday.
First, an abstract model of control tasks execution is introduced, allowing the establishment of a formal relationship linking control performance to deadline misses.
Overall scheduling length (i.e., makespan) is the main concern in system performance, whereas deadlines represent the major timing constraints of functions.
What makes rock stars so enviable, and what we really mean when we describe someone as a "rock star," is that they don't give a damn — about the drudgery of bosses, bills, backbiting, invoices, accounts receivable, performance reports, deadlines, conference call and all the hellish paraphernalia of a prosperous post-modern life.
It's that time of year when performance review deadlines are looming over many of us while we are trying to wrap up annual projects and prepare for the holidays.
The improved performance as a deadline looms can be explained to some extent by the Yerkes-Dodson law.
This resulted, for some of them (O2PL and OCC), in a considerable performance improvement (total deadline failure rate) compared to the original versions.
These optimistic assumptions tend to dominate planning and performance until the deadline encroaches, and the actual reality of the situation is harder or impossible to ignore.
So, keep this thought in mind as you listen to folks during your "innovation walkabout": Imagine a key player in your organization has just experienced a big failure of some kind -- a project that didn't work out as expected, a missed performance goal, a deadline not achieved -- really anything that is more or less public.
