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Skip framework navigation to main content 1.0 Program Management
    1.2 Program Management Planning
        1.2.1 Develop Formulation Authorization Document (FAD), Program Commit Agreement (PCA) & Program and Project Plans
            1.2.1.2 Include Documented and Defined Mission Success Criteria

1.2.1.2 Include Documented and Defined Mission Success Criteria

It is important to document and define, from the beginning, mission success criteria within the program and project plans - these are typically quantitative (metrics). These performance criteria establish the thresholds against which success or failure will be measured.
 
Mission Success Criteria References:
  1. NASA Integrated Action Team (NIAT) Report, Enhancing Mission Success- A Framework for the FutureLinks to a different Web site, Part 7.
  2. Section 6.3.2 (Establishing Mission Success Criteria) of NASA STD-8729.1 (Planning, Developing and Managing an Effective Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) Program) (available by searching at the NASA Technical Standards ProgramLinks to a page that requires password authenticationLinks to a different Web site Web site).



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