I am generally pretty big into the concept of a Maturity Model based on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). In the past I have worked on a J2EE Maturity Model to help assess a company’s maturity with J2EE based web technologies. After that I published and consulted on a Service Oriented Architecture Maturity Model (SOAMM).

Recently, I came across a couple incarnations and debates about a Cloud Computing Maturity Model. I am still digesting these articles, but I have to tend to agree with the fact that Cloud Computing is still relatively nacent – and the definition of a true maturity model that is quantifiable and measurable might be a hard task to do – and more then hard – how “actionable” could it possibly be?

Here are the links to some of the stuff I have found on Maturity Models for Clouds.

• Cloud Maturity Models Don’t Make Sense by Roger Smith
• Cloud Adoption Model by Jake Sorofman
• A maturity model for cloud computing by James Urquhart

• Commentary from the Bits and Pieces Blog on the Cloud Maturity Models