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The Openness Maturity Model attempts to define open attributes and a means to assess the type of openness within the community of practice responsible for the design, development, and distribution of the open artifact.

Traditional Definition:

There are five levels defined along the continuum of the a maturity model

1. Initial (chaotic, ad hoc, individual heroics) - the starting point for use of a new or undocumented repeat process.
2. Repeatable - the process is at least documented sufficiently such that repeating the same steps may be attempted.
3. Defined - the process is defined/confirmed as a standard business process, and decomposed to levels 0, 1 and 2 (the latter being Work Instructions).
4. Managed - the process is quantitatively managed in accordance with agreed-upon metrics.
5. Optimizing - process management includes deliberate process optimization/improvement.

These five levels can be applied to each attribute

Other possible dimensions or indicators to potentially throw into the mix and organize:

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Also, looking again at emm and Ken's comment above- going to enter those process categories at least preliminarily into the above doc.

Values

Courage: Initial, Repeatable, Defined, Managed, Optimizing

• Individual: "The willingness to proclaim oneself or a project open."
  • Initial: An initial interest has been expressed in being open or joining an open initiative.
  • Repeatable: The individual understands and has expressed the value of openness.
  • Defined: The benefit(s) of openness for the individual has been articulated.
  • Managed: Expectations of openness for the individual have been established.
  • Optimizing: The individual continually updates the previous.
• Organizational: "The willingness to declare an organization or project open."
  • Initial: An initial interest has been expressed in being open or joining an open initiative.
  • Repeatable: The organization understands and has expressed the value of openness.
  • Defined: The benefit(s) of openness for the organization has been articulated.
  • Managed: Expectations of openness for the organization has been established.
  • Optimizing: The organization continually updates the previous.
  
  
  

Participation

• Individual: "The active involvement with an organization that has identified itself to be open."
• Organizational: "The willingness to invite and admit any individual or other organization to engage with the organization"

Honesty

• Individual: "Participants engage directly (i.e. straightforwardly), truthfully and authentically with the organization."
• Organizational: "The organization engages directly (i.e. straightforwardly), truthfully and authentically with the participants."

Maturity:

• Individual: "Participants reflect on, assess and reconsider, both their own and others, current and previous engagements"
• Organizational: "The Organization reflects on, assesses and reconsiders, both their own and others, current and previous engagements"

1. Process Categories

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Waugh P. & R. Metcalfe (2007) The Foundations of Openness. What are we doing today, brain? Available from http://pipka.org/blog/2008/07/23/the-foundations-of-openness/

Agile causality http://openmasters.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/causality.png?w=768&h=1024