Success Criteria
Specify success criteria and associated metrics for determining the effectiveness of IT business planning.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Success Criteria at each level of maturity.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Establish success criteria for technical aspects of the IT business plan.
- Outcome
- Post-implementation reviews may be more objective for technical aspects of the IT business plan.
- Metric
- # of ‘lessons learned’ in post-implementation reviews.
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Review, update, and apply last years success criteria to this years IT business plan in a comprehensive way and for other business units in a selective way.
- Outcome
- The consistency of post-implementation reviews is improved.
- Metric
- # of ‘lessons learned’ in post-implementation reviews.
- 4Advanced
- Practice
- Construct Business Value Dials for major programmes/projects.
- Outcome
- Consciousness of the link between IT and business value contribution is heightened.
- Metrics
- # of business value dials defined.
- # and % of projects for which value dials are cited.
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- Develop criteria that track the internal and external impact of the IT business plan.
- Outcome
- There are better and more streamlined collaborative processes with external partners.
- Metric
- # of external partners whose participation in plan implementation is tracked.