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The Capability Investigation (CI) File
What is a CI File?
A Capability Investigation (CI) File is a virtual folder on the relevant Capability Management Group (CMG) or Capability Planning Group (CPG) virtual Team Site.
The composition of a CI File includes:
- Section 1: Mobilisation, Governance and Control
- Section 2: The Conclusion
- Section 3: The Capability Investigation Data and Working Papers
- Section 4: Finance
- Section 5: Decisions, Assumptions and Provenance.
Why use a CI File?
A Capability Investigation (CI) File:
- Provides an appropriate level of rigor, project management discipline, and documentation to a CI.
- Sets out the evidence and conclusions reached, and provides a record of the decisions made with their context.
- Enables audit and scrutiny, and could form the basis for future business cases.
- Allows third parties to review the work undertaken and safeguards against change of personnel.
- Provides a formal framework that stimulates thinking and drives a structured approach to CIs.
Saving all CI documentation, working papers, analysis and conclusions in the CI folder on the Team Site ensures:
- shared access to CI information
- Sponsor visibility of CI progress
- consistent structure and approach to CI work
- an audit trail exists for decisions
- safe retention of CI data.
