Practice Evolution
Evolve IT solutions delivery approaches and methodologies in response to business needs and in line with industry practices.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Practice Evolution at each level of maturity.
- 1Initial
- Practice
- Practices are ad hoc and are on a best endeavour basis.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Capture some appropriate measures. (e.g. cost to implement IT solution, effort spent in requirements, design, implementation, testing and delivery, number of features delivered, number & severity of test defects, % deliverables reviewed, etc.) in order to review if there is a need for adaption of the process(es).
- Outcomes
- Provides basis for measurement and analysis activities to support management decisions.
- At a minimum these measures will provide insight into the ability of the processes to achieve specific objectives such as cost, schedule and quality.
- Metric
- % of measures taken that are used.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Adapt the selected Solutions Delivery lifecycle, processes and associated deliverables in accordance with approved criteria (e.g. technology risk, project scale, clarity of requirements, new customer, product or business line etc.) as necessary to respond to business needs.
- Outcome
- The standard processes are adapted to meet a specific project's needs to ensure maximum business value is achieved i.e. processes are not executed unless they are necessary and are changed to ensure achievement of specific objectives.
- Metric
- % of processes that are adapted based on business needs.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Continually evaluate and adapt new and emerging software delivery methods for use in the Solutions Delivery lifecycle.
- Outcome
- Supports improving process performance and capability.
- Metric
- % of Solutions Delivery processes that are improved for use.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Use quantitative measures of performance to support process adaption activities.
- Outcome
- Ensures process performance is maximised.
- Metric
- # of quantitative measures in place to measure performance.