Do your organizations manage change effectively? How is your development processes? Are you on the level – Don’t know what you don’t know.
Architecture Immaturity:
- Don’t have any architecture
- It’s all complexity and inconsistency, with much system duplication
- High cost for all changes
Initial Awareness:
- Most people know that they need architecture
- Conceptual (Visio), weak standards, no formal underpinning
- Used by some projects, but no systematic influence
Do have the level formal Architecture – Architecture as specification?
- Formal models and specifications based on industry standards
- Integrated and actionable
Last level Meta-Architecture – Overall architecture conforms to architecture
- Formal meta-models based on industry standards
- Tools, automation, traceability, consistency
More information about maturity from The Open Group:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/architecture/togaf8-doc/arch/chap27.html
NB: The maturity levels is based on Mike Rosen (Applied TOGAF).
