Tools For Engineering And Operations Leaders

This page brings together practical, math-backed engineering and operations tools for people who lead complex systems. It is aimed at engineering managers, program owners, reliability leads, and operations directors who have to turn noisy data into clear, defensible decisions.

Each tool focuses on a decision pattern that shows up repeatedly in day-to-day work. For example, rolling up KPIs into a single health score, comparing aggregation methods, assessing readiness, or pressure-testing a story before it goes into a QBR or executive review.

Why These Tools Exist

• Bridge the gap between “here are the numbers” and “what do we trust enough to bet the mission on.”
• Make tradeoffs visible when different aggregation methods point to different conclusions.
• Help VPs, directors, and senior managers explain their reasoning in a way that finance, safety, and engineering can all sign off on.

Featured Tool: Health Score KPI Comparator

The Health Score KPI Comparator lets you adjust 5 core components of system or program health and compare 4 roll-up methods side by side. Those methods are weighted average, RMS, geometric mean, and a weighted average with a balance penalty.

In practice, this helps leaders who want a single health score on the slide, but refuse to hide weak links behind a high-level “92%”. Instead, they can show how different methods behave and choose a model that matches how their teams actually think about risk and readiness.

As new tools are added, this page will remain a central hub for calculators and comparators that make complex engineering and operations decisions easier to see, explain, and improve.