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Hi. In this video I'm going to undertake a capability maturity self-assessment against the Asset Management Accountability Framework using the Assessity platform. Oftentimes people will opt to use a spreadsheet for this sort of assessment, which is completely fine, but they can get a little bit clunky when it comes to including evidence to justify and support ratings. Also at the end of the process when you need to start generating graphs and producing reports for management, working with a large spreadsheet can get quite tricky. The Assessity platform aims to reduce some of those headaches and make the process a bit more user friendly for people. It's free to register and use it and it's available at my.assessity.com. After logging in you'll find an entry for the Asset Management Accountability Framework within the Assessments Catalogue. Head straight through to Start New Assessment. A few straightforward pieces of information are required to set things up. A title for your assessment will appear on your final report and will be used on the My Assessments tab so you can easily find it later on. Make sure you keep it meaningful and to the point. A description for your assessment will provide other people reading the final report with context and the intent of your assessment. You might like to include the names of the people contributing to the assessment which is always helpful when the audience for the final report may not be in your immediate team or your department. Finally, you can set the dates for the period this assessment applies to. Maybe it applies to a specific period of time between two dates or maybe it's a baseline assessment that applies as of a specific date, in which case an end date is not required. Once the form is completed you're ready to save and move on. You can jump into reviewing or assessing any requirement you want. If you have been in previously and saved any information, colour coding will help identify where things were left off. A green heading means the target maturity rating and overall assessed maturity rating have been set for the requirement. A yellow heading means only one of those has been set and a grey heading means neither have been set. You will see in a moment that it's possible to set flags against requirements, so for example you might set the 'Discuss' flag so from the assessment overview page you can quickly identify a requirement you want to discuss further with a peer. I'm going to open up a requirement I haven't assessed yet to show you what a blank assessment form looks like. There's no strict order in which you need to complete your requirement assessment, none of the fields on a page are required, however you can't finalise an assessment until all requirements have been considered, rated or marked as not applicable. What this means is that you are free to work through requirements in whatever order you want, responding to whichever area you want to focus on at any one time. So for example, you might want to go through all requirements setting your target ratings first, then work through them all again compiling evidence, finally working through them to set ratings. It's really up to you. For the purpose of this screencast I'm just going to work through the requirements assessment form in the order it is presented here. The Department of Treasury and Finance has published a comprehensive implementation guidance document to accompany the Asset Management Accountability Framework. The fundamental guidance has been built into the Assessity platform for convenience and it can be revealed and hidden again by clicking the Supplementary Guidance button. After reading the requirement definition, consider what overall target maturity rating you wish to aspire to and select a corresponding rating. The Assessity platform uses a five level maturity scale for the AMAF assessment. It ranges from the lowest level of capability, referred to as 'Innocence', through to the highest level of capability, referred to as 'Optimising'. Those terms will be familiar to people who have undertaken similar asset management maturity assessments previously, but for those who haven't the platform presents the definitions as well. If a requirement isn't applicable you can simply select the 'Not Applicable' option. The overall maturity for each requirement is being calculated through consideration of two dimensions, those being 'System Status' and 'Effectiveness of Application'. System Status asks you to take into consideration the maturity of policies, processes, procedures, manuals and other written documentation that provides direction in the context of the requirement. Effectiveness of Application asks you to consider how well the system is being applied. The maturity rating labels and values for each of the dimensions are the same as the overall maturity scale, however the descriptors are specific to each dimension to provide context. The lowest score of the two dimensions is used to set the overall rating for each requirement. So for example, if you select 'Competence' for your System Status but only 'Developing' in terms of Effectiveness of Application, the overall rating for the requirement will be set as Developing. The General Remarks area is an open text area where you can enter details on anything pertinent to this requirement and the assessment that's being performed. For example, if the assessment has revealed a material defect in your Effectiveness of Application you may want to summarise it here for inclusion in the final report. The General Remarks can also be used for summarising any improvement actions. General Remarks can be formatted like a Word document, which can help with presentation if required. In order to substantiate ratings it's important to include details of evidence. Evidence can include details of policies, procedures and manuals, which are good for demonstrating system status maturity. For effectiveness of application you might want to consider meeting minutes, calendar appointments, inspection reports and so on, the sorts of things that show that what was intended from a systems perspective was actually done in reality. An unlimited amount of evidence can be referenced by clicking the Add Evidence button as required. Provide a short title for each piece of evidence and an explanation and the information will be included in the final report. It's a good idea to save evidence in your organisation's document management system and reference it there if it is not already done so. It makes life easier if you're ever audited. Finally it's possible to flag a requirement for a variety of reasons. Flags are presented on the assessment overview page and in the final report. How you use them is up to you. They can be used to keep tabs on the assessment as it is in progress and unset before finalisation, or you might want to keep them set for inclusion in the final report to aid discussions you may want to have with management. Once you've finished on a page click on one of the save buttons and move on. You can return at any time from the overview page to update anything necessary. At anytime during an assessment you can return to the overview page via the breadcrumbs at the top. As mentioned already it is not necessary to complete all fields on a page in one session, however you do need to save whatever updates you have made before you leave. Once all requirements have been assessed a button will appear on the overview page that will allow you to finalise your assessment. Finalisation cannot be undone so ensure all ratings are where you want them, you have provided sufficient commentary and evidence and don't forget to unset any flags you don't need in the report. On finalisation of the assessment you are presented with a comprehensive on-screen summary. The power of the summary is that it communicates ratings visually, which makes them easier to comprehend and visualise relative to each other, your aspirational ratings and average ratings. The summary goes further and groups ratings by sections, which can be useful to identify general areas of strengths and weaknesses. Also included in the summary are your commentary, evidence and flags. In addition to on screen, you can also download a PDF version. This is useful for including in briefings to committees and sharing with management or with consultants. To download a PDF copy just click the 'Download to Print' button. If you are used to using a spreadsheet to perform your self-assessments you know that pulling everything together into a report, getting it graphed and attaching evidence can take a lot of time, so hopefully you find this feature a real time-saver. This concludes the demonstration of performing an Asset Management Accountability Framework maturity self-assessment using the Assessity platform. If you have any questions, want to learn more or simply want to get started, head over to the website at assessity.com where you'll find maturity assessments for innovation and cybersecurity amongst a few others. You can also follow on social media, just look up Assessity on LinkedIn or follow the links from the website.