Monday, April 4, 2011

PRINCE2 Maturity Model

Many readers won't be aware of it, but there is a PRINCE2 Maturity model (P2MM). The model is a 5 tiered approach to assessing the initial, repeatable and defined key process areas of your PRINCE2 implementation.

Assessments are mechanisms that provide a way to prioritise improvements and in general give the reader an overall feel for the way a particular methodology is working in the organisation.

The P2MM defines five levels of maturity as follows  but only three levels are actually in use:

1. Initial - Projects are recognised and run differently from usual business
2. Repeatable - PRINCE2 adopted by most projects
3. Defined - PRINCE2 tailored for organisational fit
4. Managed - not utilised in PRINCE2
5. Optimising - not utilised in PRINCE2

You may be wondering - why define the 5 levels if only 3 are used. The reason is that the 5 levels are used in the ITIL maturity model (ITIL and PRINCE2 are both OGC owned frameworks).

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