The assessment
Score your own project
All three tools on one page. Answer honestly, using the definitions from Modules 6 and 7 — the value is in the conversation the numbers start, not in the numbers themselves. Your answers stay in this browser.
Interactive tool
The Exponential Complexity Tool
Estimate the three factors for your own project. Your answers are saved in this browser and carried through to the capability and gap tools.
Needs a full-time experienced project manager, an active sponsor with authority, and genuine user involvement from mobilisation — not from user acceptance testing.
Interactive tool
Where would you place your organisation?
The nine levels are described above. Pick the one that sounds most familiar — that single level is your Organisational Capability Indicator.
3 / 9
Dialectic
People and knowledge-sharing are valued; networking is encouraged and change is consultative.
Rule of the spiral: each level is only achievable when the levels below it are genuinely in place — on the process side as well as the people side.
Interactive tool
The Capability / Complexity Indicator
Your complexity score of 1,152 converts to a demand of 6.4 on a nine-point scale. Your organisation scored 3.
+3.4
On this assessment the project demands more than the organisation can currently absorb. Close the gap from both ends: cut complexity by phasing and standardising, and build capability on a timeline that starts before the business case and continues after go-live.
What to do with the result
Take it to your project board and ask two questions: was the budget set as if complexity were this high, and what are we doing about capability that does not stop at go-live? Module 8 sets out the five moves for closing the gap.
Read Module 8 →