These are my point of attention to understand what is the "status of art" of a team/IT organization:

• Project control and Planning
  
  • How do you do plan, do you follow any methodology?
  • What tools do you use when planning?
  • How do you perform project control?Are you using EVM (Earned Value Methodology)?
  • Are there common plans among team?
  • Does a time tracking system is on site?
  • Are there any formal milestones during the software lifecycle, where a phase is closed and a subsequent is opened?
• Is there any requirement management tool in place? how do you gather requirements?
• Development.
  • What is the software lifecycle (both software for internal use and the one sold by our organization)?
  • How you develop? Is it possible to have some examples?
  • Is it possible to have a graphical representation of the sequence/process that is followed when developing a new functionality?
  • What is the average number of person days for a modification?
  • Are our estimations precise? What is our percentage of estimation correctness?
  • What are the environment/IDE you use, when developing?
• Environments
  • What programming languages are used?
  • On what environment the software is running. Windows, Linux, Unix, z/OS?
  • Do we use virtualization systems?
  • What is the position of the organization to Open Source in term of production and usage of software?
  • How environment are administered?
    • Server
    • Backup
    • Disaster Recovery
    • Tool maintenance
  • Is it possible to have a list of tools?
    
    • time tracking
    • Versioning
    • Requirement
    • Planning
    • Bug/Issue tracking

• Test.
  • Is there a dedicated test team?
  • What tool do you use for testing?
  • Do you have any defined test process?
• Quality.
  • Do you measure quality, in any way?
  • Is it possible to see any KPI on quality?
  • What is the perceived quality level from internal resources and from the clients?
  • Do you have some specific quality procesess as peer review, software inspections?
• Documentation.
  • What the quality of our documentation?
  • What is the coverage/completeness of the documentation?
  • How old is our documentation (i.e. average age of a document)?

• Do you have any versioning tool for software and for documents attached to software?
• What are the change management processes?