How to Assess Enterprise Architecture Practice Maturity
An architecture essay
Your enterprise has an architecture, but without a good Enterprise Architecture Practice, it's unlikely you are doing as well as you can. We can also call it the organisation’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) capability, competency, framework, or engine.
Let’s assume you know the value of Enterprise Architecture designing and have the makings of it in your organisation. To keep improving it, you need to assess its maturity regularly. This article shows you how.
Throughout the article, notice how I invariably append 'Practice' to 'Enterprise Architecture', and 'EA' and 'Maturity' before or after (except in section B which is about the practice’s subdimensions). You must be equally careful to always say Practice in this context, so no one thinks you are assessing the maturity of the Enterprise Architecture itself, which is a whole different thing.
We will lay this out in three parts — The Assessment Parameters, The Assessment Method, and the Assessment Scoring Template.
(Also, please note that I have described how to set up an EA Practice in another article linked below. It will be helpful for you to read it before or after this. If you follow its steps, you'll start with a good EA Practice.)
