// GLOSSARY · METHODOLOGY
Detectable change in performance against the calibrated baseline — surfaced before it becomes a gap that an incident discovers.
Readiness Drift — Detectable change in performance against the calibrated baseline — surfaced before it becomes a gap that an incident discovers.
Readiness drift is the slow, often invisible degradation of performance against the unit's own calibrated baseline. It is not the same as variance between units or comparison against fictional benchmarks. It is variance against the unit's measured history.
Most readiness systems do not fail loudly. They fail quietly. And then incident finds them. Drift detection turns the silent failure mode into a surfaced signal — with a finding, an owner, a due date, and a closure record.
// ALSO KNOWN AS
Performance drift, Capability drift, Competency drift
// DOMAIN
Cross-domain
// RELATED TERMS
Longitudinal Benchmarking
Comparing a unit's current performance against its own calibrated history across cycles, not against benchmark fiction borrowed from elsewhere.
Calibrated Rubric
A scoring rubric whose scale itself has been calibrated — not just the wording — so each score maps to a defined, defensible performance state.
Evaluator Calibration
The continuous practice of measuring and correcting variance between evaluators so a given score means the same thing across observers, units, and cycles.
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· OCTAAR Methodology Team
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