Eight gates. Eight domains. Five maturity levels. One decision.
The discipline that holds across every engagement.
No interest in the outcome.
Depth matched to risk.
Ratings anchored to documents.
Applied before commitment.
Ends in a clear recommendation.
Each engagement is anchored to a gate. The gate fixes the scope and the evidence.
Every gate decision is one of: proceed, proceed with conditions, hold.
The domains are constant. Their weighting shifts by gate.
Each domain rated from one to five. Consistency is what makes ratings comparable across programmes.
No meaningful provision.
Partial or inconsistent.
Defined and applied.
Measured and reviewed.
Embedded and resilient.
Two tiers. Set deliberately, to be proportionate not uniform.
Defined, documented, applied consistently.
Actively measured and managed.
Any domain at Level 1 holds the gate, regardless of other scores.
Independence is the product. The conflict screen runs before any engagement is accepted.
For the body that owns the programme. Never the delivery side.
CALON assesses. CALON does not execute, design, or construct.
CALON does not assure work it has shaped.
Score your programme against the same framework CALON applies. Independent gap analysis by return.