Business Architecture Current State Assessment

A structured, self-service assessment for evaluating the maturity of your business architecture practice — approximately 90 questions across 16 dimensions, each scored on a four-point scale, delivered as an editable Word document with a bonus Business Architecture Intro Guide.

Why Calibration Is the Hard Part

A generic AI-generated maturity assessment tends to produce vague, self-report questions — "how mature is your governance, 1 to 10" — that different respondents answer inconsistently because there's no shared definition of what a 4 looks like versus a 2. A usable assessment instrument needs each of its four scoring levels behaviorally anchored to something a respondent can actually check, not judge, and it needs its 16 dimensions genuinely distinct from each other so the same underlying gap doesn't get double-counted as both a "governance" problem and a "stakeholder engagement" problem. Getting that calibration right — and validating it against how business architecture practices actually mature in enterprises, not how a generic maturity-model template assumes any practice matures — is what makes a self-scored assessment trustworthy enough to present to a steering committee.

What's Inside

• 90+ Assessment Questions — organized across 16 dimensions including leadership support, methodology, governance, stakeholder engagement, and agility
• Four-Point Scoring Model — each question offers four choices, enabling self-scoring and benchmarking across dimensions
• Editable Word Format — customize questions, add dimensions, or adapt scoring to your organization's context
• Bonus: Business Architecture Intro Guide — a practical primer on business architecture concepts and best practices

Assessment Dimensions

• Leadership Support and Awareness
• Integration with Strategy Execution
• Methodology, Frameworks, and Governance
• Collaboration with Other Architectural Domains
• Team Composition, Competence, and Training
• Deliverables Quality, Stakeholder Engagement, and Scalability

How Teams Use It

• Establish a quantitative baseline before launching improvement initiatives
• Identify specific gaps and strengths dimension by dimension instead of one overall impression
• Track maturity over time by re-running the same calibrated instrument
• Present a defensible, scored case for practice investment to a steering committee

Who It's For

Business architects, BA practice leads, enterprise architects, and consultants evaluating organizational BA readiness.