Measure Your EA Practice Against the Maturity Model That Fits
One assessment tool, seven EA maturity models, each scored the way it was designed to be scored. Invite colleagues to answer the parts they know, get a clear picture of where you stand, and track your progress over time.
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From Questions to a Plan You Can Act On
Pick a model, answer its questions with the people who know the answers, and get results in the form that model intends.
Choose a model
Start a new assessment and pick the maturity model that matches your question. Each assessment keeps its model, so results stay comparable.
Answer together
Answer in any order; everything saves as you go. Invite colleagues to answer only the areas you assign them, or add a co-owner with full access.
See where you stand
Get scores by area and an overall level, or, for staged models, your stage on the path and how close you are to the next one.
Act and repeat
Work through the action plan, close the assessment as a baseline, and compare the next one against it to show progress.
Seven Ways to Measure EA Maturity
Maturity models disagree about what they measure, how they score, and what the result is for. We support each one on its own terms: levels averaged where a model uses levels, stages taken in order where it uses stages, and no overall score where a model defines none.
Useful EA Classic Model
The breadth of an EA practice: how it works, how it is governed and aligned, and how mature it is in modern areas such as cloud, data, security, platforms and AI.
- Structure
- 12 domains, 48 capabilities, 144 questions
- Scoring
- Levels 1–5, Initial to Optimizing
- Results
- Overall and per-domain levels, radar chart, 30/60/90-day action plan
IASA BTABoK Architecture Maturity
The maturity of an architecture practice as a team: its competencies, its engagement model and its outcomes.
- Structure
- 7 areas: Engagement, Ecosystem, Journey, Strategy, Agility, Capabilities, Business Model
- Scoring
- Levels 0–5
- Questions
- Written by Useful EA from the BTABoK topics
Kotusev's Stages of EA Practice
Which EA processes an organization actually runs: solution architecture, technology optimization and strategic planning, each adding a stage. It checks whether elements are present, not how good they are.
- Structure
- Stages 0–3, from No Architecture to True Enterprise Architecture
- Scoring
- Staged: Yes / Partly / No checks
- Questions
- Written by Useful EA from the paper
TOGAF Architecture Maturity
How established architecture is across the organization: structure, strategy and capabilities, management and business-unit participation, communication, security, planning, delivery and governance.
- Structure
- 10 domains
- Scoring
- Levels 1–5, Initial to Measured
- Questions
- Answers are the article's level descriptions
GAO EA Management Maturity Framework
How well an EA program is managed, built for audit and oversight: commitment, capability, demonstration and verification across governance, content, use and measurement.
- Structure
- Stages 0–6, 59 core elements
- Scoring
- Staged: a stage counts when all its elements are met
- Questions
- GAO's core elements
OMB EA Assessment Framework
Whether an agency's EA is complete, is used in planning, investment and budget decisions, and produces measurable results.
- Structure
- 3 capability areas, 13 KPIs
- Scoring
- Levels 1–5 per KPI, averaged per area. OMB defines no overall score, so we produce none.
- Questions
- Answers are OMB's level descriptions
MIT CISR Architecture Maturity
How far the enterprise's own foundation for execution has matured, from local applications to shared technology, a standardized core, and reusable business modules. It measures the enterprise, not the EA team.
- Structure
- Stages 1–4, Business Silos to Business Modularity
- Scoring
- Staged, taken in order
- Questions
- Written by Useful EA from the book
Not sure which model fits?
Read EA Maturity Models Compared for what each model measures, how it scores, and what it is meant for, with a short guide to choosing.
The models belong to their authors and publishers. Useful EA is not affiliated with or endorsed by IASA Global, The Open Group, the US GAO, the US OMB, MIT CISR or the individual authors. TOGAF is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
Built for Real Assessments, Not One-Off Surveys
Collaborators by area
Invite people by email to answer only the areas they know. Co-owners get full access, including sharing and closing the assessment.
An action plan you can tick off
Turn results into a checklist: 30/60/90-day actions for level-based models, or the missing elements of your current and next stage for staged models.
Compare over time
Close an assessment as a baseline, run the next one later, and compare them area by area to show what changed.
Export to PDF and PowerPoint
Take the results and the action plan into your next steering-committee meeting without retyping anything.
Stable questions
Question banks are versioned. An assessment keeps the questions it started with, so a later improvement never changes a past result.
Answer at your own pace
Answers save as you go. Compute results at any time; areas with no answers yet are left out rather than counted as zero.
What's True Right Now
EA Maturity Assessment is in beta. Here's exactly where things stand.
- Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial — no charge until it ends, and you can cancel before then.
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- The classic model is available today; the other models are switched on as their question banks are completed and reviewed.
- Features will change while the product is in beta. Your data will be protected so that nothing is lost as the product evolves.
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Common Questions
Which maturity model should I use?
It depends on your question. To grade an EA team and get an improvement plan, use a level-based model such as the classic model. To understand where a practice stands on a typical path, use a staged model such as Kotusev's. To talk with executives about the shape of the enterprise itself, use MIT CISR. Government agencies facing audit may prefer GAO or OMB. EA Maturity Models Compared goes into detail.
Can I change the model of an assessment later?
No. Each assessment keeps the model it started with, so its results stay meaningful. Start a new assessment to use a different model, and compare assessments that use the same model.
Why is there no overall score for the OMB framework?
OMB scores each of its three capability areas (Completion, Use and Results) separately and defines no overall score. We follow the framework, so we don't produce one either.
Who wrote the questions?
Where a model publishes its own items (GAO's core elements, OMB's and the TOGAF article's level descriptions), we use them. Where it doesn't (BTABoK, Kotusev, MIT CISR), our questions are written from the model's published descriptions, and the tool says so. The classic model's questions are our own.
Is EA Maturity Assessment free?
Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial. After that, Individual plans start at $18/mo, and one subscription covers every Useful EA tool — see full pricing.
Where can I learn everything the tool can do?
The User Guide inside the tool covers every feature, including each maturity model, how staged models are scored, sharing, the action plan, and comparing assessments.
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