Enterprise Architecture Current State Assessment

The Enterprise Architecture Current State Assessment is a self-assessment template with ~100 questions across 16 dimensions to evaluate the maturity and effectiveness of enterprise architecture in your organization. Each question offers four scored choices, providing a quantitative baseline to identify gaps and drive improvement in your EA practice.

Delivered as an editable Word document. Bonus: includes a Business Architecture Intro Guide (PDF).

What's Inside

• Self-assessment questionnaire with ~100 scored questions
• 16 assessment dimensions with four-choice scoring (1-4 points) per question
• Bonus: A Practical Guide to Business Architecture (PDF)

Assessment Dimensions

The assessment evaluates your practice across 16 dimensions:

1. Leadership Support — level of executive understanding, commitment, and active involvement
2. Awareness and Adoption — general awareness of EA and its integration into operations and decisions
3. Integration with Strategy Execution — alignment of EA with strategy development and execution
4. Methodology and Frameworks — robustness and suitability of the EA methodology in use
5. Collaboration with Other Architectural Domains — alignment with business, data, security, and solution architecture
6. Organizational Structure — how the EA function is positioned, including reporting lines
7. Deliverables Quality and Utility — value and usability of EA artifacts
8. Cross-Mapping and Integration — linkage between EA elements and organizational constructs to find gaps and redundancies
9. Team Composition and Competence — caliber, capacity, and diversity of the EA team
10. Performance Metrics — effectiveness of measures tracking EA impact on the organization
11. Governance — clarity of decision-making processes, standards, and protocols
12. Training and Development — availability and quality of ongoing EA development programs
13. Stakeholder Engagement — quality of engagement with internal and external stakeholders
14. Scalability — ability of the EA practice to scale with organizational growth
15. Technology Utilization — effectiveness of modeling, visualization, and collaboration tools
16. Agility and Dynamism — ability to rapidly adapt to market shifts and organizational change

How to Use It

• Distribute the questionnaire to stakeholders across multiple levels and functions
• Score each response (1-4 points) to generate a quantitative maturity baseline
• Identify strengths to build on and gaps requiring immediate attention
• Develop a targeted action plan and transformation roadmap for your EA practice

Who It's For

Enterprise architects, CIOs, CTOs, transformation leads, and executives responsible for driving EA maturity and aligning technology with business strategy.