Phase 4 · Build your evidence
Evidence matrix
A private record of your projects, your responsibilities and your decisions, mapped against the seven attribute areas.
Who this is for:Candidates at any stage ·Mentors
A place to build the record that makes the report writable: what you did, on which project, against which attribute areas, and how strong the evidence honestly is.
ICE's own Professional Review preparation checklist suggests exactly this: reviewing the attributes for your grade and considering which projects or roles to write about, and creating "a matrix of projects against the attributes or a skeleton plan of your report".
This is that matrix, kept in your browser. It is more useful started three years before an application than three months before, because the detail you will want — the number, the date, the option you rejected — is gone within a year.
Coverage across the seven areas
Built from what you have recorded below. An area with nothing in it is a development action, not a writing problem.
Nothing recorded yet. Add your first project below — the earlier you start, the more detail you will still remember.
These labels are your own assessment, or your mentor’s. They have no standing with ICE, and nothing here means an attribute has been achieved.
Your evidence
One entry per piece of work. Write the decision in the decision field — that is what you will use when you come to write.
Everything here is stored in this browser only. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is analysed, and clearing your browser data will delete it — so export anything you want to keep.
How to use it
Enter projects, not attributes. Start with the work. Add the attribute areas each entry speaks to afterwards — a good piece of evidence usually covers three or four.
Be honest about the strength. The value of the matrix is that it shows you the thin columns. Grading everything as strong produces a comfortable picture and no information.
Write the decision in the decision field. Not the project, not your job title. When you come to write, this is the field you will use.
Mark what you have not got. Where an area has nothing in it, that is a development action for the gap analysis, not something to solve with better wording.
Confidentiality
Do not put anything in here that should not leave your employer. Project names, client names and commercial figures are often restricted, and security-sensitive work has its own rules — see security-sensitive work. Use a code name and keep the detail in your head or in your employer's systems.
Related pages and tools
- Evidence qualityThe difference between being present, contributing and being responsible — and how to make your own competence visible.
- Gap analysisFind the areas where your evidence is thin, and turn each one into a development action you can actually ask for.
- AttributesWhat ICE assesses, how the Incorporated and Chartered expectations differ, and how to read the standard without drowning in it.
- Report plannerPlan the structure, allocate the word budget, check attribute coverage and record what still needs resolving.
- WorkspaceEverything you have recorded, in one place — with a plain account of where it is stored and how to delete it.