Appendix 4:  Project Maturity Scores - Monitoring Progress

The DMO's Project Maturity Score quantifies the maturity of a project by way of an objective score based on the project managers' judgement at defined milestones in its capability development and acquisition phases. This score is then compared against an ideal or benchmark score for that milestone. A project's maturity is assessed at 13 milestones across its lifecycle and for each of these milestones the ideal or benchmark condition is represented by a benchmark score as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 - Benchmark Maturity Scores

The Project Maturity Score comprises a matrix of seven attributes:

•  Schedule;

•  Cost;

•  Requirement;

•  Technical Understanding;

•  Technical Difficulty;

•  Commercial; and

•  Operations and Support.

The Project Manager assesses the level of maturity that a project reaches at a particular milestone for each of these attributes on a scale of 1 to 10. Score assessment is made by selecting the most appropriate description that fits the question under the attributes columns. Project Maturity Scores provide a means of communicating in a simple fashion an indicative 'as is' versus a 'should be' condition to inform decision making for each project. As the scores are subjective, they are not precise and are not intended to enable exact comparisons across projects. Following is a description of the Project Maturity Score Attributes.