Fast-Track (Organization) Assessment

Organizations or capability owners who want to quickly assess the capabilities or prefer a workshop (group) based approach, can use Fast-track or Organizational Assessment. The fast-track or organizational assessment can be performed at the IT-CMF level just like an Executive Assessment, or for a critical capability.

Although it is a fast-track assessment, you can still perform analysis and planning, just like any other assessment.

In CAMP, critical capabilities are organized into clusters and domains. The clusters map to macro capabilities in IT-CMF. Each critical capability is also called “Capability Set” in CAMP taxonomy. As per the capability maturity model, each critical capability is organized into categories and capability building blocks (CBBs). Each CBB has one or more questions. Assessments can be performed at CBB or question-level.

Unlike, you don't need to be a system administrator or survey administrator for this assessment. Your system administrator can allow access the menu items to the role your have or assign another role. If you are allowed organizational assessment, you should see Capability Assessment, and potentially a special Executive or High-level Assessment, as choices under Assessment menu.

If you don't see the above menu option, ask your administrator to add survey administrator role or add the above menu items to your current role.

As the name implies, the process for fast-track or organizational assessment is fairly straightforward.

Major steps in an assessment process:

1. Conducting Organizational Assessment, for overall IT-CMF or a critical capability.
2. Analyzing and creating charts and reports

If you are interested in IT-CMF Executive Assessment, select Executive Assessment or High-level Assessment from the Assessment menu. The menu name may be different for your configuration.

In the first navigation panel:

1. Select the Valuation Scope. It lists the different snapshot or time periods available. You can select one or more snapshots. if the snapshot year is not available, create the snapshot record from Administration Menu
2. Select the Assessment Level. You have the option to assess at question-level or capability build block level. The IT-CMF assessment at question-level has 70 questions (2 questions per critical capability) and 35 questions at capability level

In the second panel:

• Enter Maturity Scores. In the table enter a maturity score. The score can be any value between 1 and 5. Any time you click or touch a field, it shows the maturity descriptions in the next information panel. Enter the rationale or comments using the comment bubble.
• Enter Importance Scores. Select the second tab labeled as Importance. Just like maturity scores enter any value between 1 and 5 and the comments.

Calculate Maturity will roll up the scores and display the maturity and importance scores at higher levels of the model.

To assess any capability, select capability assessment from the Assessment menu. The menu name may be different for your configuration.

In the first navigation panel:

1. Select the Capability Scope. For assessing one of the IT-CMF capabilities, select IVI collection, otherwise pick another collection from the drop-down list. Navigate the IT-CMF model, and select the critical capability. Select the top node “IT-CMF” for IT-CMF level assessment, same as conducting an Executive Assessment
2. Select the Valuation Scope. It lists the ifferent snapshot or time periods available. You can select one or more snapshots. if the snapshot year is not available, create the snapshot record from Administration Menu
3. Select the Assessment Level. You have the option to assess at question-level or capability build block level. Depending upon the model, a capability building block may have one or more questions. Selecting a capability-level assessment will be an higher-level assessment for a critical capability.

In the second panel:

• Enter Maturity Scores. In the table enter a maturity score. The score can be any value between 1 and 5. Any time you click or touch a field, it shows the maturity descriptions in the next information panel. Enter the rationale or comments using the comment bubble.
• Enter Importance Scores. Select the second tab labeled as Importance. Just like maturity scores enter any value between 1 and 5 and the comments.

Calculate Maturity will roll up the scores and display the maturity and importance scores at higher levels of the model.

For fast-track or organizational assessments, CAMP offers couple of places to review and analyze assessment data.

Select ANALYTICS from INSIGHT menu. The charts under Capability Model Analysis allow you to visualize and analyze the latest maturity data for a capability. The charts under Assessment Insight allow you to analyze the data for a particular assessment.

After an Assessment, check out the chart under Capability Model Analysis.

In most of the charts, in addition to chart formatting options, you can select

• Capability Scope - select the critical capability from the navigation tree
• Valuation Scope - Maturity snapshots for which maturity data is available
• Assessment Type - Organization Assessment
• Assessment Level - Question or capability level (select one based on the organization assessment conducted)
• Chart Detail Level - Capability Category, CBB or Question-level.

If you want to export the chart image, select the file type and choose the option to either save the file or open in a new window.

Select MANAGEMENT DASHBOARD from INSIGHT menu. The charts under Capability Maturity Summary allow you create and view dashboard charts with organization assessment data. Select the charts, select and save the filter settings for dashboard you want to see on the home page or management dashboard. In chart filters, you can select

• Capability Scope - select the critical capability from the navigation tree
• Valuation Scope - Maturity snapshots for which maturity data is available
• Assessment Type - Organization Assessment
• Assessment Level - Question or Capability level
• Chart Detail Level - Capability Category, CBB or Question-level.

If you want to export the chart image, select the file type and choose the option to either save the file or open in a new window. You can also clone a chart with your personalized settings for future use.

• Fast-Track Assessment - A simple assessment without the overhead or process of inviting and managing individual assessments. This approach may be sufficient for self-assessment, assessing broad range of capabilities with minimal effort, or conducting a collaborative assessment in a workshop or with a group of people.
• Organization Assessment - alias for Fast-track assessment. Organization Assessment is a generic name used within the CAMP taxonomy. As it doesn't involve individual assessments, it is assumed to represent the organization view.
• Valuation Scope - The capabilities are assessed as of a given timeframe. Snapshots (time periods) included in the assessment provide a mechanism to evaluate capabilities across one or more time periods.