Completing your first baseline

Your first baseline is the CAMP assessment that establishes where your program stands today. Once it is complete, Pytheus can score you, benchmark you against peers, and start generating recommendations.

Before you start

Know your scope. Decide which capabilities apply to your organization, since out-of-scope capabilities should not be assessed as if they matter equally. Pull in people who know the day-to-day reality of each domain, because honest scoring beats optimistic scoring every time.

Working through the assessment

1. Confirm your organization profile, including sector and size, so benchmarks compare you to the right peers.

2. Review the in-scope capabilities across the 12 CAMP domains.

3. Score current maturity for each capability on the 0 to 5 scale.

4. Set a target maturity that reflects where you need that capability to be.

5. Set criticality: nice-to-have, core, or compliance-required.

Scoring honestly

Resist the urge to score to where you wish you were. The baseline is a measurement, not a grade. An accurate low score on a critical capability is far more useful than an inflated one, because it surfaces the work that actually reduces risk.

You do not have to finish in one sitting. Save your progress and bring in domain owners for the areas they know best.

For help choosing scores, see Understanding maturity levels. Once your baseline is in, read What happens after onboarding to see what Pytheus does with it.