Enterprise Architecture Current State Audit | Capstera

The Enterprise Architecture Current State Audit is a do-it-yourself self-assessment for scoring the maturity of an enterprise architecture practice, structured as roughly 100 questions across 16 dimensions in an editable Word document. It's built for EA leaders and business architects who want a structured read on where the practice stands before proposing changes, rather than relying on a gut feel.

Each question offers four answer choices worth one to four points, so a team — or an individual EA leader — can work through the questionnaire and get a scored picture of the practice dimension by dimension. The 16 dimensions run from leadership support and awareness and adoption, through methodology, governance, and team composition, to technology utilization and the practice's agility in responding to change — covering both the human and structural sides of an EA function, not just its frameworks and tooling.

The self-assessment is meant as an internal exercise: something you run before a change initiative, a reorganization, or a budget conversation, not a substitute for one. Scoring every dimension gives a baseline; where the organization goes from that baseline is a separate conversation.

Running the audit before a change effort also gives a practice something concrete to point back to later — a documented starting score against which any improvement, or lack of it, can be measured months on.

What's Inside

• An introduction and roughly 100 scored questions across 16 dimensions, each with four answer choices worth 1-4 points
• Dimensions covering leadership support, awareness and adoption, strategy integration, methodology, cross-domain collaboration, and organizational structure
• Further dimensions on deliverables quality, cross-mapping, team composition, performance metrics, governance, training, stakeholder engagement, scalability, technology, and agility
• Bonus business architecture templates, including capability assessment and capability relationship mapping tools

How Teams Use It

An EA leader preparing a budget request scores the practice against all 16 dimensions first, then uses the low-scoring dimensions — often governance or performance metrics — as the evidence base for the ask.

A newly hired chief architect runs the self-assessment in the first 90 days to get a baseline reading of the practice they've inherited, rather than relying on secondhand opinions from the team.

An architecture team preparing for an internal review has each member score the practice independently, then compares answers to surface where perception of the practice's maturity diverges across the team.

A consultant supporting an EA transformation engagement uses the questionnaire as a structured starting conversation with the client's architecture team instead of an unstructured discovery interview.

An architecture review board running an annual health check rescoring the practice year over year uses the same 16 dimensions each time, so the comparison is against the practice's own prior score rather than an outside benchmark it can't verify.

A CIO deciding whether to fund a dedicated EA team at all uses the scored results to have a fact-based conversation with the executive team about specific gaps, rather than an abstract argument about the value of architecture in general.

Format & Delivery

The self-assessment is delivered as an editable Word document, with capability assessment and mapping templates included as bonus files, ready to download right after purchase. It's a generic assessment instrument rather than a customized diagnostic for any one organization, sold as-is with no implementation or scoring-facilitation work included. An enterprise license for use across the broader architecture organization is available, with pricing shown on this page.