Synthetic measures

Synthetic measures are measures that are comprised of, and summarize, other measures. An example from The Phoenix Project when managing servers is giving your fleet of servers a A-F “security score” based on how up-to-date their operating systems are. The direct measure is the OS version of each server, which the synthetic measure summarizes and makes more actionable, e.g. if the security score falls below A, it might trigger work updates being scheduled.