5.3.7 Self-assessment for Enterprise Architecture (EA)
This section contains the self-assessment questionnaire for Enterprise Architecture. The questionnaire asks a number of questions to ascertain:
'if and how the institution has developed the use of EA?'
| Answer the questions for the 'domain' that you are analysing e.g. Institution, Professional services | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Don't Know or N/A | Agree | Strongly Agree | Evidence for your response | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Senior Management Team (SMT), excluding members who are ICT professionals, have an awareness of Enterprise Architecture (EA). | See section 2.9 within the toolkit knowledge base for help regarding this question. | |||||
| 2 | The Senior Management Team (SMT) have a commitment to the use of Enterprise Architecture (EA). | ||||||
| 3 | ICT Services have a commitment to the use of Enterprise Architecture (EA). | ||||||
| 4 | Devolved ICT services have a commitment to Enterprise Architecture (EA). | ||||||
| 5 | Institutional management have a commitment to using Enterprise Architecture (EA). | ||||||
| 6 | The institution has a, 'development without architecture', exception policy. | ||||||
| 7 | The institution employs ICT professionals with Enterprise Architecture (EA) experience. | ||||||
| 8 | The institution is training its ICT professionals in Enterprise Architecture (EA). | ||||||
| 9 | The institution is deploying Enterprise Architecture (EA) on a cross institution architecture initiative, top down. | ||||||
| 10 | The institution is deploying Enterprise Architecture (EA) on multiple projects, bottom up. | ||||||
| 11 | The institutional experience and capability in Enterprise Architecture (EA) is adequate to meet our current needs. | ||||||
| 12 | The institution is active in Enterprise Architecture (EA) professional practice groups. | ||||||
| 13 | Projects deploying Enterprise Architecture (EA) have achieved benefits in. | ||||||
| a | Cost reductions | ||||||
| b | Business process improvements | ||||||
| c | Rationalised & improved data management | ||||||
| d | Increased sharing of services | ||||||
| e | Transparency of ICT landscape to aid institutional agility | ||||||
| f | Transformational change | ||||||
| 14 | Success criteria and performance measurement for the benefits of Enterprise Architecture (EA) are being used and are visible. |