People Capability Maturity Model
The web site of the official People Capability Maturity Model (PCMM)
A maturity model provides a systematic framework for carrying out benchmarking and performance improvement.
It includes a series of descriptions of business performance for discrete business elements. The descriptions are ordered into levels of capability from not able to do it through to continuously improving.
The currently available models vary in the numbers of maturity levels they describe and have a variety of titles for each level. For example some models developed by OGC have 5 levels:
In some other cases there may also be a Level 0 - unawareness! The optimum level of maturity is recognised as being the level that delivers the organisation's strategic objectives most effectively and efficiently, which does not necessarily mean Level 5.
The RedEToolKit uses
The number of levels and their names can be customised.
Maturity models can be applied to an organisation, a business unit or a team to provide a road map for performance improvement.
As examples, Maturity Models have been used to:
"The purpose of the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model is to enhance an organization's ability to implement organization strategy through successful, consistent, and predicable delivery of project. -no matter what the industry..." John Schlichter writing to the PMFORUM
Towards a definition (from OPM3 Program Plan)
This is a process improvement approach that helps organizations improve their performance. CMMI can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. CMMI in software engineering and organizational development is a trademarked process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements for effective process improvement. According to the Software Engineering Institute (SEI, 2008), CMMI helps "integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes.
(People CMM, PCMM,P-CMM)
This is a maturity framework that focuses on continuously improving the management and development of the human assets of an organization. It describes an evolutionary improvement path from ad hoc, inconsistently performed practices, to a mature, disciplined, and continuously improving development of the knowledge, skills, and motivation of the workforce that enhances strategic business performance.
The People CMM is a framework that helps organizations successfully address their critical people issues. Based on the best current practices in fields such as human resources, knowledge management, and organizational development, the People CMM guides organizations in improving their processes for managing and developing their workforces.
The People CMM helps organizations characterize the maturity of their workforce practices, establish a program of continuous workforce development, set priorities for improvement actions, integrate workforce development with process improvement, and establish a culture of excellence.
Since its release in 1995, thousands of copies of the People CMM have been distributed, and it is used worldwide by organizations, small and large. First published in book form in 2001, it is in print in several editions worldwide, and a second edition is forthcoming in 2009.
People Capability Maturity Model
The web site of the official People Capability Maturity Model (PCMM)
Organizational Project Management Maturity Model
The Project management Insitute's (PMI's) Organizational Project Management Maturity Model, or OPM3® web page. OPM3 helps organizations understand their project management processes, ensures that their projects are tied to the organization's larger strategy, and measures and guides their capabilities for improvement.
EFQM Excellence Model
The EFQM web site that has useful information. Some items are for purchase. The European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) Excellence Model, is a self-assessment framework for measuring the strengths and areas for improvement of an organisation across all of its activities.
PCMM Wikipedia
The Wikipedia page for People Capability Maturity Model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Capability_Maturity_Model
E-maturity - an institutional perspective
A presentation by Neil McClean, Executive Director of Becta. It gives some simple background about e-maturity models, in particular how they might be used in schools and colleges.
http://foi.becta.org.uk/content_files/corporate/resources/events/2006/june/ematurity_mclean.ppt