IpX Self-Assessment

Just a few moments of your time could potentially save your organizational sanity.

Spend 15 minutes on the IpX Self-Assessment to evaluate your organization's state of process excellence and interoperability based on our industry standards. Our survey covers 8 key topics to help you identify any areas where you may need to improve. At the end of the assessment, we’ll provide you with actionable insights into how to improve as appropriate; and you'll get the first online course in our CM2-Comprehensive change and configuration management certification series for free.

Take the Assessment

IpX Assessment Guide

Overview Video

If you'd like to get a sense of what the assessment is all about before you jump in, please watch the video we've made and let us give you an overview.

Scoring

The assessment has total of 56 questions across 8 key topics with a maximum of 280 points. Each question is graded on the following scale: No = 0 points; Yes = 5 points.

The 8 Key Topics

Configuration Management
Requirements Management
Change Management
Release Management
Data Management
Records Management
Dataset Control
Enabling Software

Rate Your Process Efficiency

Grade

Score

Rating

225-280

Core processes provide a competitive advantage. Intervention is minimal. Improvements are robust.

170-220

Core processes have many strengths and areas needing improvement are being addressed.

110-165

Confidence in the CM2 principles and their application is growing as corrective action is declining.

55-105

The CM process has many weaknesses. The organization is deeply mired in corrective action.

0-50

The CM process is ineffective, there is no accountability. Firefighting is considered to be business as usual.