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Appendix H

Improvement Planning

Directory

The Improvement Planning Directory is provided to show the dependen-
cies between Capabilities, which are essential to the Assessment and
Improvement steps of the OPM3 Cycle. Once the organization has identi-
fied Best Practices requiring comprehensive assessment, this Directory will
indicate the Capabilities leading to each of these Best Practices, along with
any additional Capabilities on which they may depend. These dependen-
cies result in a sequence in which the various Capabilities aggregate to the
Best Practice, which also serves as a suggested path by which an organi-
zation could approach improvements in maturity. See Sections 6.3.2. and
6.3.3 for further information.
The user can copy pages from this Directory pertaining to any identified
Best Practice and use these pages as a checklist or template when assessing
the existence of Capabilities and planning for any improvements. For each
Capability, there is a column of boxes where the user can check off the exis-
tence of the Outcomes associated with that Capability.
The path to maturity within a Best Practice may cross the paths leading
to other Best Practices. OPM3 identifies numerous Best Practices whose
existence depends upon the existence of other Best Practices. This kind of
relationship implies corresponding dependencies between the Capabili-
ties that aggregate to those different Best Practices. These dependencies
are represented in the Capability order shown in the Improvement Planning
Directory.
The placement of this directory within the Knowledge Foundation serves
simply as a placeholder, since the Improvement Planning Directory will not
be seen by the user in its entirety. Instead, the content of the Improvement
Planning Directory will be based on input and filters chosen by the user of
OPM3 CD-ROM.

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