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Appendix G

Capabilities Directory

The Capabilities Directory provides detailed data on all of the Capabilities
in the model, organized according to the Best Practices with which they are
associated. The Capabilities Directory is central to the second part of Assess-
ment, in which the user is able to determine—through the observance of
Outcomes—which Capabilities associated with each Best Practice currently
exist in the organization and which do not, in preparation for decisions
regarding potential improvements.
Each Capability in this Directory is assigned a unique identifier corre-
sponding to its position within the Best Practice. (These Capability unique
identifiers are also referenced in the Improvement Planning Directory.) The
Capabilities Directory gives a name and description for each Capability, and
indicates how this Capability was categorized by domain, process improve-
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ment stage, and the PMBOK Guide process group containing the Capability.
For each Capability, there is a list of the Outcomes (with Key Performance
Indicators and Metrics) that should be confirmed to claim the existence
of this Capability, a process explained in Section 6.3.2. Where there are mul-
tiple Outcomes associated with a Capability, OPM3 places them in a sug-
gested sequence based on priority.
The placement of this directory within the Knowledge Foundation serves
simply as a placeholder, since the Capabilities Directory will not be seen
by the user in its entirety. Instead, the content of the Capabilities Directory
will be based on input and filters chosen by the user of the OPM3 CD-ROM.

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