PILAR may use either the maturity levels or administrative statements about the status of the implementation of the safeguard. That is, PILAR changes the text associated to levels L0 to L5.

level

maturity

status

L0

non-existent

does not exist

L1

initial / ad hoc

started

L2

repeatable but intuitive

partly done

L3

defined process

working

L4

managed and measurable

monitored

L5

optimised

continuous improvement


PILAR may translate maturity levels into an index between 0.0 and 1.0; this index is frequently named as percentage (of compliance):


level

index

percentage

L0

0.0

0%

L1

0.1

10%

L2

0.5

50%

L3

0.8

80%

L4

0.9

90%

L5

1.0

100%