Trends Report

Use EA Assessment And Maturity Models To Guide Your EA Program Next Steps

July 2nd, 2009
Henry Peyret, null
Henry Peyret
With contributors:
Alex Cullen , Mimi An

Summary

A recent survey revealed that a minority of enterprise architects perform regular EA assessments. While a wide range of assessment methodologies are available to EA organizations, none of them are widely recognized or complete in scope — which is why none of them achieve broad use across organizations. Forrester expects that EA assessment usage will increase as EA maturity progresses and the demand for better EA value grows. EA program leaders should plan and budget for a broad assessment — either using their own self-assessment based on the best of various frameworks or using an outside expert to develop a 360-degree view.

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