Accountability Assignment
Establish accountability for managing the expenditure of IT budgets.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Accountability Assignment at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Rely on the best endeavours of assigned personnel.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Assign line managers and/or functional managers to budgets.
- Outcome
- Line managers and functional managers are assigned budgets, without formal accountability for actively managing them.
- Metric
- % of line managers and/or functional managers owning their budgets.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Ensure that all budget categories have clearly identified and accountable owners.
- Outcome
- Line managers and functional managers are formally held accountable for budgets.
- Metric
- % of line managers and functional managers adhering to their budgets [within specified tolerances]
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Consistently enforce accountability for budget management via issue escalation.
- Outcome
- Line managers and functional managers can apply corrective actions to achieve budgets, with a defined issue escalation path.
- Metric
- % of projects with budget accountability assigned to line managers and functional managers
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Give line managers and functional managers the authority and tools to make real-time IT budget decisions.
- Outcome
- Line managers and functional managers can be held accountable for both profiling and managing expenditure, in order to improve budgeting performance.
- Metric
- % of line managers and functional managers actively profiling and managing expenditure to their budgets [within specified tolerances].