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Use these 16 questions to evaluate your current EA practice. Your answers will result in an individual maturity score and a report helping to understand your EA’s organizational, use case, data, and technology maturity.

The report includes insights into how to improve your positioning in the future.

Organizational Maturity

Our Enterprise Architecture (EA) discipline has a clear vision of improving business outcomes.

Organizational Maturity

EA is a strategic component of all relevant IT-related processes.

Organizational Maturity

Buy-in of the executive management (C-Level) for EA is established beyond IT in various business areas.

Organizational Maturity

EA is taken for granted and used by many users to support the business and IT portfolio.

Use Case Maturity

Strategic business transformations are supported by EA.

Use Case Maturity

EA has a clear business case for each use case, verified regularly.

Use Case Maturity

EA has defined quantitative and qualitative goals.

Use Case Maturity

EA continuously improves the entire IT stack, including corporate and product IT.

Data Maturity

Data in our EA inventory is updated promptly or in real time with little individual manual effort.

Data Maturity

We have a dedicated EA tool and continuously collect new data based on a shared understanding of new use cases.

Data Maturity

Key stakeholders trust using EA data in qualitative reports (e.g., heatmaps, roadmaps) and decision-making without further consultation.

Data Maturity

Our management relies on EA data for strategic decision-making based on individual dashboards and KPIs.

Technology Maturity

We use our EA tool collaboratively as a platform to support transformation instead of solely being used as an architecture repository.

Technology Maturity

Our EA tool is well integrated into our IT ecosystem (e.g., IT service management, CMDB, process/project management, IT financial management)

Technology Maturity

In our EA tool, we leverage automatic data maintenance and triggering of action items for users.

Technology Maturity

We use 3rd party catalog services (e.g., for software and hardware lifecycles) to enhance our data without our own research.

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