Project Maturity Score Attributes

ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTORS VS MATUR TY SCORE
	Schedule	Cost	Requirements	Technical Understanding	Technical Difficulty	Commercial	Operation and Support
DELIVERING THE DMO ACQUISTION PROJECT (Delivery Performance)
Maturity Score	How are the IMR & FMR milestones tracking against project approval?	How well is the cost tracking against project approval?	How well are the requirements defined in the MAA being realised?	Defence's understanding of the technical solution and arrangements to operate and support the capability.	How well are the design and its validation coming along?	How well is industry performing?	How well prepared is the project to transition from Acquisition to Sustainment?
10	Achieved	Proven	Demonstrated	Fully Understood	Proven	All Delivered	Operational
9	Confident	Contingency Remains	Tested	Transferred	Tested	Delivered	Transitioning
8	Acceptable	Confident	Designed	Arranged	Integrated	Delivering	Integrated
7	In Tolerance	Within Contingency	Acceptable	Needs Understood	Designed	Manages Risk	Being Procured
6	Manageable	Negotiated	Contracted	Provided for	Planned	As Contracted	Defined
DEFINING THE DEFENCE PROJECT (Process Maturity)
Maturity score	How realistic is the schedule?	What is the quality of the project estimate?	How well are the requirements defined and understood?	How well are the solutions understood?	How difficult is to integrate the component parts?	Can industry deliver the solution?	Is the impact on the existing operating and support environment understood?
5	Confirmed	Pre- Endorsed capability	Endorsed	Understood	Manageable	Offered	Planned
4	Understood	Industry Tested	Documented	Feasible	Feasible	Industry Proposals	Known
3	Feasible	Reasonable	Solution Classes	Coalescing	Building Blocks	Strategy Developed	Issues Understood
2	Drivers known	Plausible	Scenarios identified	Minimal	Conceptual	Possible	Conceivable
1	Speculative	Speculative	Deficiency	Not at all	Not Defined	Not Yet	Not Identified

Project Life Cycle Gates CDG_Responsibility DMO_Responsibility	Represents	Benchmark Maturity Score
Enter Defence Capability Plan	The stage at which a project is recommended to Government for inclusion in the Defence Capability Plan	13
Decide Viable Capability Options	The stage in the capability definition/ development process when 1st Pass options that will be put to Government are decided by CCDG	16
1st Pass Approval	The stage at which 1st Pass options to be put to Cabinet are endorsed by the DCC	21
Industry Proposals/ Offers	The stage at which formal responses from industry to an RFP or RFT have been received and evaluated	30
2nd Pass Approval	The stage in the capability definition/ development process when 2nd Pass Approval is sought from Cabinet	35
Contract Signature	On completion of contract negotiations and on concluding contract signature of a contract that has maximum influence on the project.	42
Preliminary Design Review(s)	On completion of System Requirements Reviews and when Preliminary Design Reviews are completed	45
Detailed Design Review(s)	On completion of Detailed Design Reviews	50
Complete System Integration and Test	On completion of Verification and Validation activities at the system and subsystem levels	55
Complete Acceptance Testing	On completion of all contractual acceptance testing and associated testing activities nominated in the TEMP	57
Initial Materiel Release (IMR)	Occurs when the materiel components that represents the DMO contribution to Initial Operational Release (IOR) are ready for transition to the Capability Manager	60
Final Materiel Release (FMR)	Occurs when all the products and services within the MAA have been transitioned to the Capability Manager.	63
Final Contract Acceptance	On Final Acceptance as defined in the contract	65
MAA Closure	Occurs when all of the actions necessary to finalise the MAA have been completed, including completion of all financial transactions and records, completion of contracts and transfer of remaining fund.	66
Acceptance Into Service	The point at which the Capability Manager accepts the Materiel System, supplies and services for employment in operational service223	67
Project Completion	Project closure is achieved when the project is financially closed, support arrangements have been transitioned and all MAA requirements have been demonstrated and transitioned.	70

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223 Where multiple elements of a mission system are involved (e.g. 3 surface combatants) this date represents Initial Operational Capability (IOC) of the initial Subset, including its associated operational support, i.e. when the Initial Operational Capability is achieved. (DI(G) OPS 45-2 refers).